Abstract:The author would like to express his sincere gratitude to his Ph.D. supervisors, Associate Professor Anutosh Chakraborty and Professor Ooi Kim Tiow, for their great patience, invaluable academic inspiration, knowledge, guidance and support to his study and research. Without them, this thesis is impossible to complete.
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