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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The authors would like to acknowledge the help and encouragement they
have received from colleagues and collaborators during the course of writ-
ing this book. Some materials presented in this book are based on the
research conducted with several Ph.D. students, including Xiaohua Lv,
Shubo Wang, Guofa Sun, Dongwu Li, Xuehui Gao. We also would like to
thank Bin Wang, Yongfeng Lv, Liang Tao, Jun Yang, Chao Zhang, Linlin
Shi, Meiling Tao, and Huihui Shi, Zhongjun Hu for their editorial support
for this book. We also express the deep sense of gratitude to our parents
and families for their patience and support.
We are very grateful to Kunming University of Science and Technology,
Beijing Institute of Technology, and Zhejiang University of Technology for
providing plenty of resources for our research work. This work was also
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
under the grant Nos. 61573174, 61203066, 61273150, 61433003, and
61403343.
Finally, we would like to thank the book series editor Professor
Quanmin Zhu for his support, and the team of Elsevier publications for
their support, cooperation, and encouragement in bringing out the work
in the form of monograph in such a short span of time.

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