The medieval theological worldview was a synthesis of grace and nature that allowed theology science to act together in sacred salvific pursuit knowledge. This is beautifully expressed the Divine Ideas tradition. In this tradition, tapestry upon which ancient written, created things existed by reflecting God’s eternal ideas them. gave all natural knowledge Trinitarian dimension because generati...

Acknowledgments I would like to begin by thanking my advisor, Professor Alexander Diesl, for his encouragement and excitement for my research. He has always remained supportive and interested in my work, and his many questions have kept me motivated and excited about my project. I would like to thank him as well for being understanding about my silly questions, helping me piece apart my convolu...

Speech processing in the automotive environment is a challenging problem due to the presence of powerful and unpredictable nonstationary noise. This thesis addresses two detection problems involving both nonstationary noise signals and nonstationary desired signals. Two detectors are developed: one to detect passing vehicle noise in the presence of speech and one to detect speech in the presenc...