Authors’ Notes This chapter was written with the support of grants from the National Science Foundation to the first (SBR-9730822) and third (BCS-9905397) authors. Support to the second author was provided by the Grantin-Aid for Scientific Research 11610096 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. The chapter was completed while the third author held a N...

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