
Acknowledgments
The editor wishes to acknowledge the contributions of authors from various
institutions, who wrote many of the chapters in this book. I am grateful
to all authors for their conscientious cooperation. The editor would like to
thank a number of colleagues who have critically read various parts of the
manuscript and offered many valuable comments. In particular, special
thanks go to Kenneth M. Anderson, Yvan Bédard, Jonathan D. Blower,
Alain Bouju, Carlos Granell, Leticia Gomez, Shuichi Kurabayashi , Chen
Li, Wei Luo, Sattam Mubark Alsubaiee, Adam Iwariak, Elias Ioup, Gabriele
Pozzani, Ahmet Sayar, Stefano de Sabbata, Rafael Jesús ...