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We show that sufficiently close to the QCP, Ohmic dissipation can change the dynamical critical exponent from z = 1 to z = 2 in the quantum critical (QC) regime. In the third part we show that the regularization of the conductivity resulting from the bosonic interactions on the 'insulating' (quantum disordered) (QD) side of an insulator-superconductor transition in 2D gives rise to a metal with a finite conductivity, σ = (2/π)4e2/h, as temperature tends to zero. Hence, we conclude that the traditionally-studied insulator-superconductor transition, which is driven solely by quantum fluctuations, corresponds to a superconductor-metal transition. In the fourth part we consider the fluctuation conductivity near the point of the IST in a system of Josephson junction arrays in the presence of both particle-hole asymmetry and Ohmic dissipation. 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In the fourth part we consider the fluctuation conductivity near the point of the IST in a system of Josephson junction arrays in the presence of both particle-hole asymmetry and Ohmic dissipation. We show that in the regions where a perturbative renormalization-group treatment is valid, coupling to an Ohmic heat bath leads to non-monotonic behavior of the dc conductivity as a function of temperature. In the fifth part we analyze the behavior near the 2D IST in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We show that with increasing field H, the QD and QC regimes, in which vortex degrees of freedom are suppressed, crossover to a new magnetically activated (MA) regime, where the correlation length ξ ~ 1/√H. 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