F ur meine Eltern Acknowledgments First of all, I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Dr. Wolfram Menzel, for all the support he gave to me during the work on this thesis. I am very grateful to Privatdozent Dr. Martin Kummer who introduced me into the world of games and who helped me so much to get this project started. I am glad that I had the opportunity to work with him. His broad knowledg...

Publication Title Author(s) Dental Economics September 2004 The Jamison Files – Minimally Invasive Dentistry Dr. Joe Whitehouse Dr. John H. Jameson Dimensions of Dental Hygiene July 2004 Maximize your Visual Acuity Jean C. Wu DDS Arvie Malik RDH, BS Journal Practical Hygiene 13/3: 2004 Technology for Improved Patient Care... A Look Down Under Donna Brogan RDH, BS Gayle Myers, RDH, BS ZahnKrone ...

Roger Federer and Tiger Woods are good friends. They are also world champions in their respective sports, tennis and golf. What do their achievements have in common with the training of top surgeons? Why was Prof. John Terblanche an excellent surgeon but struggles at golf, which he took up in his retirement? A better understanding of what makes champions seems to indicate that there are more co...

This paper is intended as a minimal introduction to the application of Lagrange equations to the task of finding the equations of motion of a system of rigid bodies. A much more thorough and rigorous treatment is given in the text “Fundamentals of Applied Dynamics” by Prof. James H. Williams, Jr., published in 1996 by John Wiley and Sons. In particular the treatment given here to the evaluation...

Note: Prof. Dr John H. Elliott is participating as a research associate of Prof. Dr Ernest van Eck, Department of New Testament Studies, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa. This article is an English version (with minor modifications and additions) of an essay first published in French as ‘Lecture socioscientifique. Illustration par l’accusation du Mauvais Oeil en Galatie...

We propose three new algorithms for the distributed averaging and consensus problems: two for the fixed-graph case, and one for the dynamic-topology case. The convergence times of our fixed-graph algorithms compare favorably with other known methods, while our algorithm for the dynamic-topology case is the first to be accompanied by a polynomial-time bound on the worst-case convergence time. Th...

Date approved: To my parents Maria and Stoyan To my wife Dilyana Acknowledgments This dissertation would not be possible without those whose love, understanding, experience , and knowledge have inspired and supported me during my Ph.D. study. First of all, I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Gérard Cornuéjols, for his advice and guidance. As a skilled researcher and excellent teacher, he pr...