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xvii Acknowledgments I thank my wife, Tahira, for critical reading of this monograph, offer- ing valuable advice, useful discussion, and evaluation of the subject mat- ter. Without her help and participation, this monograph neither could nor would have been completed. I would also like to express my gratitude to Melanie Tucker (Senior Acquisitions Editor) and Kristi Anderson (Senior Editorial Project Manager) and Chris Wortley (Book Production Project Manager) at Elsevier/Academic Press for their full cooperation, quick responses to my queries and professional manuscript handling. Akhlaq A. Farooqui Acknowledgments