I hereby declare that the material contained in my thesis is original work performed by me under the guidance and advice of my supervisor and has not been previously published in whole or in part in any print or electronic format except where due Author's publication is made in the thesis itself. I certify that, to the best of my knowledge, my thesis does not infringe upon anyone's copyright nor violate any proprietary rights. And any ideas, techniques, quotations, or any other material from the work of other people included in my thesis, published or otherwise, are fully acknowledged in accordance with the standard referencing practices. I declare that this is a true copy of my thesis, and this thesis has not been submitted for a higher degree to any other University or Institution.