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<p><b>DECLARATION</b></p>

<p>This thesis is my own work and, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains:</p>
   <ul>
	<li> no material previously published or written by another person, except where this<br>is explicitly defined in the acknowledgements;</li>
        <li>no material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the qualification<br>of any other degree or diploma of a university or other institution<br>of higher learning.</li>
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<p><b>Third Party Copyright Statement</p></b>
	<p>I have either used no substantial portions of third party copyright material, including<br>charts, diagrams, graphs, photographs or maps, in my thesis or I have obtained permission<br>for such material to be made accessible worldwide via the internet. If permission has<br>not been obtained, I have removed the third party copyright material from the digital copy.</p>