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Acknowledgements

I would like to acknowledge my supervisor, Wolfgang Heidrich, for his ideas and discussions related to this thesis. I am grateful for the assistance of several members of my department, including Eddy Boxerman, David Lowe, Robert Bridson and Michiel van de Panne.

For their support, I would like to thank my parents, my brothers, and Kathryn. Finally, I would like to thank the friends who kept me sane during my research, including Dave Burke, Hendrik Kück, Eric Brochu, Lisa Streit, Roger Tam, Ben Forsyth, Ritchie Argue, Matthew Brown, Derek Olive, Kristin Kopra, Alex Aylett, Shuzhen Wang, Matthew Thorne and Dan Archambault.




DAVID PRITCHARD


The University of British Columbia
October 2003