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% In short ``Thanks every body''!
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% Completing my PhD %degree 
% is the most intellectually challenging %% FUCK OFF ZERNIKE POLYNOMIALS WERE MORE DIFFICULT --- and actually useful unlike set theory
% activity of my first 52 years of my life!                       %% SET THEORY IS A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS
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% The best and worst moments of this  journey 
% have been shared with many people. 
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% It has been a great privilege to spend several years 
% visiting the Mathematics and Engineering departments of 
% the University of Brighton, pushing me forward in clarity of self-expression,
% precision through mathematics, critical assessment and carefully crafted English:
% its members will always remain dear to me, and a strong influence.
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% %%%% IS THIS BIT A BIT MAD???? YES! 27AUG2013
% % % % Like an army recruits training Sergeant Major I found them 
% % % % hard task masters at first, and then, as with realising the rationale behind training and
% % % % {\em even} parade drill, respected and grew to like them.
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% My first debt of gratitude must go to my supervisors, 
% Dr. A. Fish,
% Dr. C Garret and        %% TOP BLOKE
% %Dr. C Garret,          %% TOP BLOKE
% Professor J. Howse. %% JAVALA LAT HUND
% %Dr. A. Fish.          %% JAVALA LAT HUND
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% They patiently provided the guidance, 
% encouragement and advice necessary for me to proceed through the 
% research, consolidation and write-up phases of the PhD program,
% to prepare and present three papers to conferences~\cite{syssafe2011,syssafe2012,Clark_fastzone}  
% and to complete and submit this thesis. 
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% I owe a debt of thanks to Dr J. flower, my MSc project supervisor, 
% who explained that the chapter in my project documentation postulating a modular form of
% FMEA---which had %obvious 
% potential for making the process %FMEA
% more efficient---was a concept worthy of being developed for a PhD and assisting  me
% to present the chapter as %submit this as 
% a conference paper~\cite{Clark200519}.
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% Further I thank her for encouraging me to apply for the PhD. %% PITY SHE DID NOT STAY ON AS MY PHD SUPERVISOR
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% I am deeply thankful to the directors of {\etc} not only for
% funding this course, but providing training and work experience in the
% field of safety critical engineering, and giving me Friday
% afternoons to pursue my studies.
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% At Energy~Technology~Control, the following people gave encouragement, and
% validated the concepts for the `modular~FMEA' that I was developing, Martin~Thirsk, Colin~Talmay,
% Darren~Legge and Hazel~Anderson. 
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% These Engineers, whose whole careers
% have been focused on the safety critical electronic/computing area,
% gave valuable time to look at and comment on my FMMD proposals.
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% Their comments gave me confidence that the methodology I was developing had
% %was not only an academic exercise but had 
% potential practical 
% applications and benefits.
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% The environment and context of the work at {\etc}
% was very useful for clarifying concepts relating to FMEA and 
% safety; at least once a week there is  a new practical case study arising
% and being discussed, be it, say, the observability of the effect of failures in an 
% traditional amplifier configuration,
% or how a particular sensor could fail. 
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% The field of industrial burner control, is highly regulated and
% is rich with practical examples of safety measures built into
% hybrid digital/electronic systems.
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% This has given me many opportunities to %  has been % be
% apply the new methodology against `real~world' problems.
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% %and thus its 
% %theoretical aspects have been  often
% %sounded out  against `real~world' problems.
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% These real~world failure scenarios and their proposed solutions, were often detailed in  
% requirements and design documentation, submitted in support of 
% safety accreditation. 
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% I was glad to be tasked to produce many of these documents.
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% Again I thank {\etc}, for giving me
% these parallel tasks, which aided my studies.
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% I wish to thank my parents, Jennifer and Richard Clark.
% % MY MUM for proof reading alot!
% I hope that this work makes you proud.
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