Note the wide range of the items listed. All of these and many others have the goal of change and improvement in common. Human beings have been concerned about change since the written word. Some societies were afraid of change while others have embraced it. The above methods were created to address change.

Mass spectrometry (MS) is fast becoming the premier tool for analyzing various drug metabolism samples in the early phases of drug discovery and research. Introducing the newer, more powerful MS equipment and exploring new applications for using them, this book provides a state-of-the-art look at this promising field.

After the two successful years that this book has been available in German-speaking countries, the publishers decided to translate it into English and allow me the opportunity to address not only my German countrymen but savvy Perl programmers throughout the world!

This book is authored to address many challenging topics related to the multi-core embedded systems research area, starting with multi-core architectures and interconnects, embedded design methodologies for multi-core systems, to mapping of applications, programming paradigms and models of computation on multi-core embedded systems.