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In short ``Thanks every body''!
Completing my PhD %degree 
is the most intellectually challenging %% FUCK OFF ZERNIKE POLYNOMIALS WERE MORE DIFFICULT --- and actually useful unlike set theory
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 my doctoral journey 
have been shared with many people. 
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It has been a great privilege to spend several years 
visiting the Mathematics and Engineering departments of 
the University of Brighton, 
and its members will always remain dear to me.
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My first debt of gratitude must go to my supervisors, 
Dr. C Garret,          %% TOP BLOKE
Professor J. Howse and %% JAVALA LAT HUND
Dr. A. Fish          %% JAVALA LAT HUND
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They patiently provided the guidance, 
encouragement and advice necessary for me to proceed through the 
research, consolidation and write-up phases of the PhD program,
to prepare and submit three papers to conferences~\cite{syssafe2011,syssafe2012,Clark_fastzone}  
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, 
who explained that the chapter in my project documentation postulating a modular form of
FMEA---which had obvious potential for making FMEA
more efficient---was a concept worthy of being developed for a PhD and assisting  me
to submit this as a conference paper~\cite{Clark200519}.
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 Energy~Technology~Control~Ltd not only for
funding this course, but providing training and work experience in the
field of safety critical engineering, and giving me Friday
afternoons to pursue my studies.
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At Energy~Technology~Control, the following people gave encouragement, and
validated the concepts for modular FMEA that I was proposing, Martin~Thirsk, Colin~Talmay,
Darren~Legge and Hazel~Anderson. 
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These Engineers, whose whole careers
have been focused on the safety critical electronic/computing area,
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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potential practical 
applications and benefits.


% Grandma Serife Gur and grandaunt Fadime Altinteril, who left us too soon.

I wish to thank my parents, Jeniffer and Richard Clark.
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I hope that this work makes you proud.

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