ii This thesis is dedicated to my beloved family, to my parents for their never-ending encouragement, love and confidence in me and to my brother for his motivation and guidance. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I feel it as a unique privilege, combined with immense happiness, to acknowledge the contributions and support of all the wonderful people who have been responsible for the completion of my master'...

I reply to the objections recently raised by J. Llosa to my constructive proof that Lagrangians with nonlocality of finite extent inherit the full Ostrogradskian instability. PACS numbers: 03.65.Bz, 11.10.Lm † e-mail: [email protected]

Lisp objects are heap-rather than stack-allocated because their extent is generally indeenite. Since stack-deallocation is performed without running the garbage collector, speed improvements are expected. Dedicated hardware can stack-allocate objects associated with reference counters or microcode daemons such that one can exactly know the status of the object to be deallocated and perform what...

ii To my parents, Clementino da Cruz and Varlene Rodrigues da Cruz To my husband, Cristiano Oliveira, for their unconditional love, support, encouragement, and unfailing belief that I was capable of attaining this goal. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS With the deepest gratitude I wish to thank my husband, Cristiano Oliveira, for understanding my love for Dentistry. To my family, for their love, support and...

Acknowledgements Many people have helped getting this thesis to its present state. I sincerely thank them all. First of all, I would like to thank professor Holger Hermanns for bringing forth such an interesting topic of investigation. I am also grateful to professor Bernd Finkbeiner for the helpful recent discussions we've had and for accepting to be a reviewer of my thesis. I am especially th...

This dissertation is dedicated to my parents Mamatsaba and Ohentse, my siblings Lerato and Lebogang, my cousin siblings Diau, Keneilwe, Ntsane and my grandmother Sponkie. 2 Acknowledgements I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the following: God, for I am a product of his mercy and love. This has been a successful year and I know I could not have done it alone. Thank you Father. Prof...

“If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations then so much worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collap...

Ladies and Gentlemen! It gives me great pleasure to be giving the Nobel Lecture before you. In it I shall be reporting on the results of my research for which the Royal Caroline Institute permit me here once again to give public expression of my deepest gratitude has awarded me the Nobel Prize. Naturally I can only present a fraction of these results and I shall have to content myself with tell...

Recommended Citation Alammari, Rawa Abdullah. "Assessment of color difference between the tooth as a whole and underlying dentin. ii To my parents, for their unconditional love, endless support, making me who I am today To my Abdulrahman, for his love and support. To all my family and friends, who in one way or another participated in this journey. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, i would like to thank my advisor Prof. Laurence J. Jacobs for all his support during my stay in Atlanta. He helped me in desperate situations and motivated me whenever it was necessary. Because of his financial and organizational commitment , i could present the results of this thesis at the Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) conference in Brunswick, Ma...