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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work (and thought experiments) has been generously supported over
the intervening years by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart
Association, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), and the
State of Pennsylvania. I am grateful to have had the exposure and close collabo-
ration with academic faculty spanning the spectrum of engineering and biomedi-
cal sciences. I am especially indebted to Dr. Andrew Wechsler, Professor and
Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery, whose unwavering dedication to scholarship
made it possible to take time away from assigned duties and think outside the
cardiac and/or surgical box.

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