Publications Related to This Thesis; Supervisor's Foreword; Abstract; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Motivation and Outline; 2 Introduction to the Standard Model and Beyond; 2.1 The Standard Model; 2.2 Electroweak Theory; 2.3 Beyond the SM; References; 3 Precision Tests of the SM; 3.1 Atomic Parity Violation; 3.2 Parity-Violating Electron Scattering; 3.3 Radiative Corrections to QWp; 3.4 The γZ Correction; References; 4 Structure Functions; 4.1 Deep Inelastic Scattering; 4.2 Quark-Parton Model; 4.3 Modelling Structure Functions; 4.4 γZ Interference Structure Functions; References

5 Adelaide-Jefferson Lab-Manitoba Model5.1 Electromagnetic Parametrisation; 5.2 AJM γZ Interference Structure Functions; 5.3 Phenomenological Constraints; References; 6 The γZV Correction; 6.1 γZ Box Corrections for Qweak; 6.2 Predictions for Parity-Violating Asymmetries; 6.3 QWp at 11 GeV; 6.4 APVDIS for the Proton at 11 GeV; References; 7 Electric and Magnetic Polarisabilities of the Proton; 7.1 The Generalised Baldin Sum Rule; 7.2 Q2 Dependence of α and β; References; 8 Quark-Hadron Duality; 8.1 Duality in the SM; 8.2 Moments of Structure Functions; 8.3 Implications for the γZV Correction