I like to acknowledge the assistance of the Editorial Board Members and many others for their help during the preparation of this volume. In particular, I like to thank the following colleagues (in no particular order) for their reviews of manuscripts and helpful comments: Dr Anne Baker, Dr Richard Robbins, Prof Uri Gerson, Dr Andreas Wohltmann, Prof Ting-Huan Wen, Dr Renjie Hu, Dr Ting- Kui Qin, Prof Carlos Flechtmann, Prof. S. Ehara, Dr Xiaoyue Hong, Dr Eddie Ueckermann, Dr David Walter, Dr Evert Lindquist, Dr Sabina F Swift, Dr DiAnn Morgan, Dr Larry G. Arlian, Dr Jerry Krantz, Dr Barry OConnor, Dr Gilberto de Moraes, Dr Chyi-Chen Ho, Dr Daochao Jin, and Dr Bruce Halliday. I am grateful to Dr Qinghai Fan, who spent a lot of time page-setting the entire volume, and to Prof Huiqin Dong and Dr Ting-Kui Qin, who arranged the printing of this volume and its distribution to members.