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Acknowledgments
The authors are most grateful to their editor Kenneth Teng, Publishing Editor in Life
Sciences, as well as the entire production team involved at Springer Nature
Publishers, including Mr. Vignesh Viswanathan, Project Coordinator. In addition,
we want to extend our gratitude to Dr. G. Wayne Clough for his Prologue, and to
Robert W. Gillespie for his Foreword. In addition, we thank all of our friends and
colleagues throughout the world with whom we have collaborated on so many projects for many decades. Ms. Sudha Kannan, Project Manager, after Mr. Vignesh
Viswanathan, Project Coordinator, (unless Ms. Kannan does not want her name
mentioned).