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In this Ph.D. thesis I present three anomalous behaviors of systems that are based on polyisopropylacrylamide (pNIPAM). In all cases, the anomaly is related to a special character of pNIPAM - its willingness to form hydrogen bonds. Each of the thesis' experimental sections deals…

Lévy processes are a universal model for characterizing the behavior of extreme events and anomalously diffusive systems. They are also important in modeling the transport of laser-cooled atoms. This dissertation contributes to the understanding of Lévy processes themselves, and…