First of all, we would like to thank all contributors to this book whose insightful
work we had the honour to edit. We would also like to express our gratitude to everyone
whose work helped to bring this volume to press, above all our sincere thank you goes to the
reviewers of the manuscript, Leonardo GREGORATTI (University of Durham, United
Kingdom) and Parviz Hossein TALAEE (Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran).