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three muses —Laura, Nikki, and Ling —for their inspiration while writing this dissertation. In large part, my dissertation research has been sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Airforce Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, USAF, under agreement number F30602-97-2-0021. The U.S. Government is

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