{"title":"A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 8 Languages","authors":"Wolfgang W. Glenz","doi":"10.3139/9781569908600.fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3139/9781569908600.fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311421,"journal":{"name":"A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 8 Languages","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130559107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spanish Index","authors":"Wolfgang W. Glenz","doi":"10.3139/9781569908600.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3139/9781569908600.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311421,"journal":{"name":"A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 8 Languages","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114876301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"French Index","authors":"Wolfgang W. Glenz","doi":"10.3139/9781569908600.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3139/9781569908600.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311421,"journal":{"name":"A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 8 Languages","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134124796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Portuguese Index","authors":"Wolfgang W. Glenz","doi":"10.3139/9781569908600.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3139/9781569908600.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311421,"journal":{"name":"A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 8 Languages","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132897385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Italian Index","authors":"Wolfgang W. Glenz","doi":"10.3139/9781569908600.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3139/9781569908600.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311421,"journal":{"name":"A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 8 Languages","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125861366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dictionary","authors":"Wolfgang W. Glenz","doi":"10.3139/9781569908600.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3139/9781569908600.001","url":null,"abstract":"Report series is concerned. It comprises the proceedings of a meeting held in late 1989 which brought together many of the leading researchers in the field. Not surprisingly for a meeting based in New York only five of the 33 participants (rather than those with their names on the papers) are from outwith the U.S. There are four main sections covering genetic and environmental risk factors, neurobiological markers of risk, animal models and candidate genes, and linkage studies. The papers within these sections are generally good and well referenced. Many studies on alcohol seem to focus on father and sons, and this bias is continued here. In Scotland at least, nearly one in every three admissions for alcoholism are female. In any genetic disorder females must at least be carriers of the gene, and the identification of neurobiological markers common to both female non-alcoholics and male alcoholics would be of immense use in clarifying linkage analysis. Although Lander makes this point on several occasions in the text, it seems to have been addressed only scantily by the others. There is also little mention of the medical end-effects of alcohol abuse and their use in delineating more severe subphenotypes or inheritance patterns. I could only find one mention of KorsakofFs syndrome in the text, and none in the index. Most but not all papers have transcripts appended of the question-and-answer session related to them. Most but not all sections have transcripts appended of round-table-type discussions of the subjects raised. In all there are 121 pages with such transcripts, approaching one-third of the total length of the book. Thus I must presume the editors place great importance on our reading of these, but it was in doing just that that I started to wonder about the readership they hope to capture. To make sense of some of the comments made often involves mental acrobatics to interpolate from one statement to the next; ideas are introduced without previous exposure to the concepts behind them (e.g. after a good review of neurophysiological correlates of alcoholism risk by Begleiter the discussion suddenly turns to the amount of 'dipoles' he has found; the average psychiatrist or geneticist generally does not have a background that includes the various theories of cortical current sources involved in e.e.g. generation); and sometimes there are confusing mistakes which occur in any discussion but could have been corrected before that discussion when into print. For example, after a paper on aldehyde dehydrogenases we are told that ALDH2 (aldehyde dehydrogenase) is alcohol dehydrogenase, and later that aldehyde dehydrogenase resides on chromosome 4 (which is home for alcohol dehydrogenase). I found the open discussions much better, but why none for the first section of the book? I especially enjoyed the discussion at the end of the section on animal models and candidate genes, in which most of the problems of analysing complex phenotypes are raised ","PeriodicalId":311421,"journal":{"name":"A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 8 Languages","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121525572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian Index","authors":"Wolfgang W. Glenz","doi":"10.3139/9781569908600.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3139/9781569908600.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311421,"journal":{"name":"A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 8 Languages","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127156385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese Index","authors":"Wolfgang W. Glenz","doi":"10.3139/9781569908600.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3139/9781569908600.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":311421,"journal":{"name":"A Glossary of Plastics Terminology in 8 Languages","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125077031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}