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

I wish to thank my parents, Jeniffer and Richard Clark.
% MY MUM for proof reading alot!
I hope that this work makes you proud.