Acknowledgements I would like to thank many people who helped and encouraged me with this work. My advisor, Joachim Rosenthal, worked with me long and patiently so that I could produce this dissertation. My committee members, Heide Gl using-L uerren, Alan Howard, and Juan Migliore, made many suggestions that have improved this work greatly. My academic \siblings", Brian Allen, Roxana Smarandach...

Mats Dreifaldt (2013): Conduits in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: Saphenous vein, radial and internal thoracic arteries. Örebro Studies in Medicine 93. A novel technique for saphenous vein (SV) graft harvesting, the No-touch technique (NT), has been developed at the Dept. of Cardiovascular surgery, Örebro University hospital. With NT the SV is harvested with a pedicle of surrounding t...

The purpose of this article is analysis the iconographic programs iconostasis created in Baroque period main church complexes Ukraine - St. Sophia Kyiv and Pechersk monastery. It found that side altars Assumption Cathedrals other churches located on territory monasteries had thematic related to dedication. These do not include Deisis compositions images necessary for year-round cycle divine ser...

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A self-homodyne photonic receiver for transmitted carrier wireless links isdemonstrated. The key innovations in this photonic RF-receiver are the design andimplementation of a resonant LiNbO3 microdisk electro-optic modulator and novelRF down-conversion techniques that exploit the sensitivity of the microdisk forefficient RF down-conversion in the optical domain. By careful RF a...

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ii DEDICATION To My Family. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is with a great joy that I reserve these few lines of gratitude and deep appreciation to all those who directly or indirectly contributed to the completion of this work: First and foremost I offer my sincerest gratitude to Dr. Marouane Kessentini, who dedicated all his wonderful time to collaborate, support and lead me to the end of this piece...

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