I provide the account of divine creation found in multiverse theorists Donald Turner, Klaas Kraay, and Tim O’Connor. I show that the accounts Kraay and Turner offer are incoherent. God does not survey all possible worlds and necessarily actualize those universes in the (on balance) good worlds or the worthy worlds. If God necessarily actualizes the multiverse, we have no idea which universes ar...

Three views on the cosmogony of Genesis 1:1-3 have found broad acceptance in the literature on this subject: (1) the restitution theory of cosmogony, which contends that the chaos of Genesis 1:2 occurred after God had created an originally perfect universe; (2) the initially chaotic theory of cosmogony, which insists that the chaos of 1:2 occurred in connection with the original creation; and (...

ACMAINT is a network-based, centralized database system used to manage computer account creation and maintenance on the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. ACMAINT allows the system administrator to perform account-related admintrative chores for any machine on the network from any attached system. Using ACMAINT, the system adminstrator can create new user accounts, add or delete ac...

HIS GREATNESS What splendid power and greatness God displayed by His creation. The Creator is a fortiori greater than His creation. Isaiah declared that Israel's God holds in the hollow of one hand all the water of the sea, and with the outstretched fingers of His other hand measures the expanse of the sky. Isaiah then added that God could take all the dust of the earth and pour it into His lit...

The focus of this research is to develop a method for building Text to Speech Systems for resource poor languages by using data from other languages to fine tune a general template polyglot TTS architecture. Our method involves three main componants: language clustering, phoneme mappings and prosody modelling. As a proof of concept, four TTS have been implemented for English, Spanish, Malay and...

The so-called Exclusion argument (Kim 2000; Papineau 2004) about mental causation applies one premise that is typically accepted without much discussion: the thesis of causal completeness of the physical domain (CCP). In part one I evaluate Papineau’s (2001) argument for the CCP. I argue that this argument is not satisfying and that it is incomplete. The rest of the thesis is dedicated to an al...

In this paper we describe a system that uses natural language dialogue to provide customer service for a financial domain both over the phone as well as over the Internet. Some sample transactions include checking one’s account balance, transferring money from one account to another, buying, selling, and trading stocks, etc. The system described is robust enough to handle speech recognition err...

This paper presents a model of a card payment system to address the pricing and rules that govern such systems. It evaluates the social optimality of privately set interchange fees and the adoption of a rule by payment systems to prevent merchants surcharging for card transactions using two extremes of merchant pricing—monopolistic pricing and perfect competition. Both types of merchant pricing...

Empirical data shows that current account has the property of mean-reversion and the speed of current account convergence is heterogenous across countries. In order to explore the factors which affect the current account adjustment speed of a small country, this paper builds up a model to study how current account would be affected by factors such as labor supply and monetary policies. We found...

Global current account imbalances, more specifically the large deficit in the United States and the surplus in China and some other Asian economies, continue to attract considerable attention both among policy makers and academics. While the academic literature has focused predominantly on the sustainability of the imbalance and on the exchange-rate consequences of its elimination, many policy ...