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