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\chapter*{CONTRIBUTORS AND FUNDING SOURCES}
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\subsection*{Contributors}
This work was supported by a dissertation committee consisting of Professors Bhaskar Dutta (advisor), Dimitri Nanopoulos and Teruki Kamon of the Department of Physics and Professor Stephen Fulling of the Department of Mathematics.

Chapters \ref{Ch:Conformal} and \ref{Ch:DM} contains a reprint of sections extracted from an article entitled "Dark Matter Relics and the Expansion Rate in Scalar-Tensor Theories". This work was completed in collaboration with Bhaskar Dutta and Ivonne Zavala, and is reprinted with permission from the IOP Publishing.

Chapters \ref{Ch:Disformal} and \ref{Ch:DM} contains a reprint of sections extracted from an article entitled "D-brane Disformal Coupling and Thermal Dark Matter". This work was completed in collaboration with Bhaskar Dutta and Ivonne Zavala, and is reprinted with permission from the American Physical Society.

Chapter \ref{Ch:Leptogenesis} contains a reprint of sections extracted from an article entitled "A Cosmological Pathway to Testable Leptogenesis". This work was completed in collaboration with Bhaskar Dutta,  Chee Sheng Fong and Enrico Nardi, and has been submited to JCAP.

All other work conducted for the dissertation was completed by the student independently.

\subsection*{Funding Sources}
Graduate study was supported in part by the Department of Energy Grants DE-FG02-13ER42020 and  DE-SC0010813, and in part by the Scholarship for Graduate Studies for Faculty from the Universidad de Costa Rica.
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