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Thanks are due to my supervisor, 
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Stephen
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Blundell
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, for his wisdom in helping me to find the right trees to bark up; my officemate
s in Room
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104, 
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Tom
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Lancaster
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 and 
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Paul
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Goddard
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, for many useful discussions (and many entertaining but useless ones);
 the muon posse for making experiments (more) bearable: 
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Francis
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Pratt
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 (especially for filling up The Beast at midnight), 
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Isabel
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Franke
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 (who deserves particular mention for tolerating an entire 
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Jack
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Wright
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 (for advice on making the perfect bacon sandwich) and 
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`Peter
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Baker'
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 (and his impossibly strong hands); the skilled synthesisers of samples
 for this thesis, 
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Jamie
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Manson
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, 
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John
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Schleuter
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 and the magic-fingered 
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; 
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Bill Hayes
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, for tea-time stories, wise words and proof-reading; my corridormates,
 for countless distractions and occasional assistance: 
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Graeme
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Johnstone
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 (and his green laser), 
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Alice
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 (and her green logbook of `Friday experiments'), 
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Peter
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`Babbers'
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 (in Soviet Russia, cups hide you) 
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Saman
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Ghannadzadeh
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 (particularly for help with pulsed-field measurements), 
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Heather
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Lewtas
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), 
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Johannes
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Möller
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 (for proof-reading and bug-finding), 
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Ben
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Williams
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 and 
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Gaw
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; me mates 
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Tom
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Fuller
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 (the other Headline Superhero), 
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Rebekah
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Smith
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 and 
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Elizabeth
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Tidy
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; the parents who engendered me, 
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Nick and Louise
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Steele
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; and finally, 
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Rosalind
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, who has kept me insane throughout, and looks sweet upon the seat of a
 bicycle made for two.
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He insert this thesis would have been completed several months sooner.
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