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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank to my PhD supervisor, PD Dr. Jörg H. Kleinschmidt for his great guidance and support during my entire doctoral study.
Many thanks to Prof. Dr. Wolfram Welte, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Apell and Dr. Christoph Meyer for their generous support and encouragements.
I want to address special thanks to my parents, my aunt Mina Bulieris and to my best friend Dr. Carmen Vicol for their continuous and unconditional love, support and encouragements. I wish to express my deep gratitude to Sr. Angelika Böhler and to all my wonderful friends from the Catholic Blogosphere for their support and prayers.
Last but not least I am also very thankful to all my colleagues and friends from Uni-Konstanz for their permanent help and affection.