ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This work was supported in part by the grants PB96-0663 of the DGES (Spain), the EU TMR Project “Homogenization and Multiple Scales, ” a Foundation for the Authors of Excellent Ph.D. Theses in China, and the NSF of China (19901024).

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