ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank all my course leaders, professors and teachers for their continuing interest, encouragement, and support in helping me reach where I am today.

I also wish to thank my students for having encouraged me every step of the way to provide them up-to-date information in an easily accessible manner.

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I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the authors and researchers in this world who have contributed to the development of mankind by sharing their thoughts and viewpoints with others. We are all influenced by the thoughts and ideas of other people which tend to drift into the subconscious and are not always distinguished clearly from one’s own. I have attempted to give references for sources of work by other writers but apologize to any concerned if acknowledgement has inadvertently not been recorded. 

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