..........................................................................................................2 Acknowledgements.........................................................................................3 Table of contents............................................................................................4 List of figures...........................................................

................................................................................................................................. I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................................ III PUBLICATIONS ARISING FROM THIS THESIS .............................................................................. V TABLE OF CONTENT...

and Acknowledgements v Introduction and Overview 1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The fully packed loop model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The hard particle model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Outline of the thesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

........................................................................................................ v Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... vii Publications .................................................................................................. ix List of figures .......................................................

.............................................................................................2 Objectives............................................................................................2 Method...............................................................................................2 Results...........................................................................................

................................................................................................. iii Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning ..................................................... v Preface ................................................................................................... vii List of appended papers .......................................................................

.................................................................................................................................. ii SAMMANFATTNING .......................................................................................................... iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................... vi LIST OF PAPERS ......

......... .............................................................................................. II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................. IV PRESENTED ABSTRACTS ARISING FROM THIS THESIS ........................... VI TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................. VIII LIST ...

............................................................................................................................. III Sammanfattning ................................................................................................................ IV Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................... VI List of ...

...................................................................................................................... III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................ V ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ......................................................................... IX LIST OF FIGURES .........................................