ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Charles Sutton told me that graduate school is supposed to be a life changing experience. He was correct. More people have helped me through this process than I can list here, but several deserve particular mention. I am here because of all of my teachers. Lisa Meeden at Swarthmore introduced me toMiller taught me to reason about uncertainty. Other graduate students and postdocs...

Explicit solutions of the non-constant semi-dynamical reflection equation are constructed, together with suitable parametrizations of their structure matrices. Considering the semi-dynamical reflection equation with rational non-constant Arutyunov-Chekhov-Frolov structure matrices, and a specific meromorphic ansatz, it is found that only two sets of the previously found constant solutions are e...

the nutritive values of honey locust pods obtained from different growing sites were evaluated by chemical composition and in vitro gas production techniques. growing site was found to have a significant (p< 0.001) effect on the chemical composition. the cp contents of honey locust pods ranged from 67.2 to 119.9 g kg-1 dm. water soluble carbohydrate (wsc) ranged from 122.3 to 152.2 g kg-1 dm. n...

To my teacher Mr. Kedar Soni, who introduced me to the awesomeness of physics! i Acknowledgements Today, I take one more step towards my dream of being a physicist, I pause for a while and look back to see the smiling faces of many who helped me. By blaming all of them who are responsible for me to be here, I wish to express my gratitude and happiness for the fact that they are there. The bigge...

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my special thanks to Professor Bhaba R. Sarker, my major advisor. This work would have never been completed successfully without his incredible guidance and supervision in this pursuit. I appreciate the time and effort that he has given in educating me in research and completing the thesis. I did not learn only the art of research and the materials he...