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LessWrong help desk - free paper downloads and more
Over the last year, VincentYu, gwern, myself and others have provided 132 academic papers for the LessWrong community (out of 152 requests, a 87% success rate) through the Free research, editing and articles thread. We originally intended to provide editing, research and general troubleshooting help, but article downloads are by far the most requested service.
If you're doing a LessWrong relevant project we want to help you. If you need help accessing a journal article or academic book chapter, we can get it for you. If you need some research or writing help, we can help there too.
Turnaround times for articles published in the last 20 years or so is usually less than a day. Older articles often take a couple days.
Please make new article requests in the comment section of this thread.
If you would like to help out with finding papers, please monitor this thread for requests. If you want to monitor via RSS like I do, Google Reader will give you the comment feed if you give it the URL for this thread (or use this link directly).
If you have some special skills you want to volunteer, mention them in the comment section.
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http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=034548084727579;res=IELHSS
Here.
Report from the FDA's Sugards Task Force, 1986 (Link is to first four pages.)
EDIT: Resolved via /r/scholar/
Are you sure this is a journal publication and not an entire book? http://www.worldcat.org/title/report-from-fdas-sugars-task-force-1986-evaluation-of-health-aspects-of-sugars-contained-in-carbohydrate-sweeteners/oclc/153620633 suggests it's a book, and I don't see any hits in Google Scholar for a Journal of Nutrition paper covering it, and from your PDF, 1000 citations sounds like it would take up a lot of space.
Special issue of a journal, apparently. I ended up getting the executive summary via /r/scholar so it's resolved.
Requested here, and found.
http://logcom.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/2/173.short
Requested here, and found.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/tp6w73g03gp1x721/#section=1034705&page=1
http://ge.tt/8NrJdNZ/v/0
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569775.2012.651273
Here.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27646750?uid=3739560
The Big One: A Review of Richard Posner's "Catastrophe: Risk and Response"
Thanks again!
http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-013-0384-5
Bats, balls, and substitution sensitivity: cognitive misers are no happy fools
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-4878-4_6
http://ge.tt/2zSks1Z/v/0
Thanks!
http://sss.sagepub.com/content/1/3-4/407.full.pdf+html
here
Thanks!
sigh. I guess somebody is systematically downvoting all my comments again, if even this comment gets a downvote. :(
It's those damn karma intrinsic egalitarians who bite the bullet on the Levelling Down Objection.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5440129
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2011-koomey.pdf
http://da.journal.informs.org/content/2/3/144.abstract
http://www.cs.ru.nl/~marinav/Teaching/BDMinAI/influencediagrams05.pdf ?
Oh you're right, they've got the same DOI number, just different titles.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-9991.2012.00528.x/pdf
Here.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811911004964
Here.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912000353
Here.
I note, by the way, that /r/scholar is also an excellent place to ask for papers. I've seen (and had) requests I thought near-impossible answered within an hour.
The difficulties of executing simple algorithms: Why brains make mistakes computersdon’t
Found a proof of this article at: http://sapir.psych.wisc.edu/papers/lupyan_brainsAlgorithms_proof.pdf
Full text of this article: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2152422,00.html
http://www.theglobalnews.net/can-google-avoid-death/ ?
That's... odd. I picked up this issue at the airport, and there was a much longer cover story in there. Maybe this is actually the short introduction to the longer cover story?
Entirely possible. But that will make it a lot harder to collect all the stories, because you need to find titles for each of them before anyone can retrieve them from a database. This is one of the situations where you may be best off just biting the bullet and buying or borrowing a copy or visiting your local library (which presumably gets Times).
Narratives and goals: Narrative structure increases goal priming. Laham, Simon M.; Kashima, Yoshihisa http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/zsp/44/5/303/
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"A Preliminary Report of Kayak-Angst Among the Eskimo of West Greenland: a Study in Sensory Deprivation" http://isp.sagepub.com/content/9/1/18.extract
Here.
2. Here.
3. Here.
Edmundson, R.H. (1990), Decomposition: a strategy for judgmental forecasting. Journal of Forecasting, 9, 301-314.
Here.
Fusion projections: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978trbc.book..577D or http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A%3A1021815909065 (following up on this graph from here)
Here.
Requested.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joes.12032/abstract
here
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.1222/pdf
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requested
These links make it hard to find the article because for me to go to the wiley login page. If you link to 'abstract' it works fine though.
Oops, sorry! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.1222/abstract
http://philpapers.org/rec/ELIAAI
here
What's wrong with this one? (second "external link" on the page you linked) It's on the author's site, along with many (all?) of his other papers.
If you want it in formatted PDF though, only Springer has it afaict, so someone else will have to help you there.
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=206689557&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine
here apologies about the delay.
Requested.
I was halfway through writing a post asking for this paper, but remembered to Google first and it turns out gwern already has that covered. Thanks!
(The result of my research: creatine is probably a good nootropic only if you are a vegetarian. This is valuable information, since I am a vegetarian.)
More generally: http://www.gwern.net/Creatine
Looking into Hanson's proposal for fire-the-ceo markets: Entrenchment, governance, and the stock price reaction to sudden executive deaths, An analysis of the stock price reaction to sudden executive deaths: Implications for the managerial labor market, and The Importance of Board Quality in the Event of a CEO Death.
Last one
Couldn't get the last one.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15027570.2010.537903
Here.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hart/lit/2011/00000003/00000002/art00004
http://dl.dropbox.com/s/hlcx9p04vrdnr0z/74477090-120823160907-phpapp01.pdf (Incidentally, the full text was the first result on google search.)
Thanks for letting me know about it coming up on Google. I had searched for it on Google Scholar getting the url I posted, but re-searching this looks like a case where plain Google works better than Google Scholar. Doesn't usually happen, but I'll keep it in mind in the future.
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1891348&show=abstract
Mission impossible: diffusion and drift in the microfinance industry (Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal)
This site is the best for academic papers: http://libgen.org/scimag
Seriously. Look at their list of available journals. They claim to have access to 21M papers.
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2012-00560-001/
requested.
http://ge.tt/8DsktOY/v/0
Peter Norvig. 2008. Statistical learning as the ultimate agile development tool. ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge.
I found this presentation by Norvig that has that name, but not a paper by that name, despite finding the "ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management". Is that what you meant? Couldn't find "ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge".
http://wcx.sagepub.com/content/18/1/80.short
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/2001-chenoweth.pdf
http://wcx.sagepub.com/content/20/1/99.short
This is a case where Google scholar claims to have a PDF, but the link to the PDF is not working for me.
here
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020737383800613
here
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/014492998119283
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/1998-law.pdf
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/xlm/10/3/483/
here
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01449299008924237
here
Requested.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020737387800585
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/85192141/1987-bateson.pdf
here
Neufeld, V. R., Norman, G. R., Barrows, H. S., & Feightner, J.W. (1981). Clinical problem solving by medical students: A longitudinal and crosssectional analysis. Medical Education, 15 , 315–322.
here
Requested.
Feltovich, P. J., & Barrows, H. S. (1984). Issues of generality in medical problem solving. In H. G. Schmidt & M. L. DeVolder (Eds.), Tutorials in problem-based learning. Assen, the Netherlands: Van Gorcum.
here
Requested.
Putnam, Hilary, 1961. “Brains and Behavior”, originally read as part of the program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section L (History and Philosophy of Science), December 27, 1961.
here
Requested.
John Searle's 1980 paper Minds, Brains, and Programs. I'm requesting this because the version that comes up on Google Scholar is labeled as an "unedited penultimate draft," which is a problem for purposes of quoting it directly.
How about this: http://www.class.uh.edu/phil/garson/MindsBrainsandPrograms.pdf ?
Huzzah!
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00169709?LI=true
Here.
I'm not sure how "LessWrong relevant" philosophy of religion is considered to be, but I could use having access to the section on Aquinas from William Lane Craig's book The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz.
I generally have trouble getting access to books sorry :-/
Thanks anyway :)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7213/full/nature07278.html
Here.
(If anyone knows a general way to get theses when the obvious download fails, I'd appreciate knowing. They seem pretty hard to get.)
Yeah, I've had difficulty accessing theses as well. My roommate tells me that the reason is that nobody wants to access them because they're almost always just a set of previously published papers (in many fields you publish 3 papers and staple them together for a thesis). This suggests the alternative of finding the papers that make up the thesis. You'll miss out on the introduction by the author, but they may be a lot easier to get a hold of.
That works sometimes, but not usually for the theses I seem to be interested in - for example, the iodine thesis has no preceding papers or else I would've found those first before running into the thesis.
I couldn't access the first thesis.
Second thesis. Hmm... unfortunately, the author ignored the past two decades of research using the Big Five and relied instead on personality typing.
(I think recent theses from most US institutions are available from the ProQuest database. I don't know any general way to get non-US theses.)
Thanks for the second; there's actually a surprising number of papers using MBTI in online education, it's really annoying. I may have to look into converting MBTI to Big Five if I do a meta-analysis.
Goode, P. (2002). Connecting with the reservoir. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal, 42(2).
According to Welsh et al. (2002), this paper estimates that "biases such as anchoring and overconfidence contribute to a US$30 billion/year loss in the oil and gas industry."
Here.
Unfortunately, the $30 billion/year loss is not explained and no citation is given:
One possible attack for a citation is, besides the obvious searches for those two figures or looking for related government reports/statistics, is looking for a McKinsey report on that industry written before then; they're widely read but not always cited, and they have industry-wide views because of their prestige and numerous clients.
Requested.
http://journals.lww.com/jcat/Abstract/2000/01000/Ultra_High_Resolution_Imaging_of_the_Human_Head_at.2.aspx
In a weird format (printed to PDF)
Chapter 14 of this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Functional-Magnetic-Resonance-Imaging-Edition/dp/0878932860/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353328060&sr=8-1&keywords=Huettel+fMRI
PMed.
The Many Lives of Moore's Law
Here.
The Mythology of Moore's Law
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Mollick, Ethan. "Establishing Moore's law." Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE 28.3 (2006): 62-75.
Here.
Moore's Law Forever
Here.
Finally, Here
Requested.
I'm looking for a thesis by Bullock 2007, "Experiments on partisanship and public opinion: Party cues, false beliefs, and Bayesian updating" (may be accessible via Proquest).
I'm interested in it because I've come up with a Bayesian justification of the backfire effect, but it seems like Bullock may have covered it already in the last section. ;_;
EDIT: He did some interesting stuff in "Part 3, Bayesian Updating of Political Beliefs: Normative and Descriptive Properties", but not exactly what I have in mind.
Here.
I need some guidance with a problem in the calculus of variations. I want to use direct methods to prove the existence of a minimizer of a certain functional, but I don't really know what I'm doing. If anyone with expertise is reading, I've given a full description at MathOverflow.
I think Minimax methods in critical point theory with applications to differential equations by Paul Rabinowitz might help me out.
You can download the book here.
PDFs of the following books are available upon request (I will likely send you a link by next business day):
Kahnemann, Slovic, Tversky, eds. (1982) Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Howson & Urbach (2006) Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach 3rd ed.
Thaler & Sunstein (2008) Nudge
Elliott Sober (2008) Evidence and Evolution
Huw Price (1997) Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point
James Stewart (2011) Calculus: Early Transcendentals 7th ed.
Craig & Moreland, eds. (2009) The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
Jordan Howard Sobel (2009) Logic and Theism
Graham Oppy (2006) Arguing About Gods
Neil A. Manson, ed. (2003) God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science
Madigan et al. (2010) Brock Biology of Microorganisms 13th ed.
Churchland, Paul M., State-space Semantics and Meaning Holism in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research JStor Philosophy Documentation Center
Here.
For the editing. How could I sign up to help? I don't have the skills in research yet, but I am decent at writing and could help.
Thanks for the offer Michelle! Either 1 - monitor these comments and wait for someone to ask for help (I use RSS to do that) or 2 - I can remember that you offered to help and can let you know when someone offers.
Unfortunately, we've only had a few requests for that kind of help. I might use it in a while, though.
I have a big library of about 5,000 pdf's, with books (including textbooks) and papers in philosophy, psychology, statistics, computer science and a few other areas. The library is about 18 GB in size. If folks here can think of an easy way of sharing this material, I'd be happy to make it publicly available.
Google drive. It can be set so that a folder is only available to someone if you send them the link. If there isn't enough room on one account, make a couple different accounts and separate them by subject.
Thanks. Unfortunately Google Drive offers 5 GB of space only. Yes, in principle I could create four different accounts, but in practice this would be a hassle, since ideally I would want to keep the library updated and this would require me to switch accounts frequently. It would also be harder for visitors to access the material, since I really lack the time to sort thousands of files into separate subjects. I might consider this approach if there are no other options, but I'd strongly prefer to upload all the files to a single account.
A possible alternative: I could send people here invites to Dropbox and earn additional storage space. If sufficient folks sign up (~25), this would provide me with enough space to upload all of this material.
I've made a number of updates over the past weeks, so I thought I should write a brief new comment summarizing the material that is now available for download. There are two separate torrent files, both of which contain the entirety of my electronic library, comprising about 4,100 items mostly in pdf format.
One torrent contains all the files uncompressed. You can see the contents of the library and select specific files for downloading. Magnet URI:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:BEDDF7A5647B634C179EA68EBBBAAA80967D9D1D&dn=LessWrong&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.publicbt.com%3a80%2fannounce
The other torrent contains a single, compressed file, which is about 20% smaller in size. Choose this one if you want to download the entire library. Magnet URI:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1D845DB543FFF3DE83B66FAA595F1A3D9F42ED42&dn=Library.zip&tr=udp%3a//tracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80/announce
Thanks a lot!
Is there a way to download individual contents without downloading the whole 15 Gb zip file?
I have subscriptions to both ACM and IEEE. Just sayin'.
Currently outstanding requests:
When the only constant is change.
NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R) and Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM)
The effect of iodine supplementation on cognition of mildly iodine deficient young New Zealand adults.
(Found) Ruddick, William. 1980. “Concluding note.” In Philosophers in Medical Centers, edited by William Ruddick, 81–2. New York: Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs. OCLC:7424036
(Found) Hooper, Edward. 1999. “The quieting of Louis Pascal.” In The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS, 365–74. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co. OCLC:39905078
(Found) Pascal, Louis. 1986. “Judgement day.” In Applied Ethics, edited by Peter Singer, 105–24. Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC:13820779
A number of old AI papers
Machine consciousness: plausible idea or semantic distortion?
(Found) Zadeh (1950), Thinking Machines, A New Field in Electrical Engineering.
Please respond to these under the original request (linked).
Paper 9 has just been posted.
Papers 4-6 have already been found.
this was an unhelpful comment, removed and replaced by the comment you are now reading
Chapter 3 is available from the publisher as a sample.
(BTW, this is an old help desk thread; the newest one is here.)
Is this page still active? My institution doesn't have access to the journal Psychophysiology going back far enough... would anyone be able to find this:
Fischler, I. et al. "Brain potentials related to stages of sentence verification." Psychophysiology 20(4), 400--409.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1983.tb00920.x/pdf
Thanks very much!
Most people would be looking at newer threads like http://lesswrong.com/lw/ji3/lesswrong_help_desk_free_paper_downloads_and_more/
Ah, thanks, I didn't spot that there were more recent ones.
Update: obtained from another source.
Two requests:
Shelf life and safety concerns of bakery products--a review. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15077880
Predicting and preventing mold spoilage of food products. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23462093
YES! thank you. These are super helpful.
(I can't get either, sorry.)
Thanks for trying.
Greene LS. "A retrospective view of iodine deficiency, brain development, and behavior from studies in Ecuador". In: Stanbury JB, ed. The Damaged Brain of Iodine Deficiency. New York, NY: Cognizant Communication; 2004:173-185.
Here.
Thanks.
Requested.
National Health Spending In 2011: Overall Growth Remains Low, But Some Payers And Services Show Signs Of Acceleration
If Slow Rate Of Health Care Spending Growth Persists, Projections May Be Off By $770 Billion
The first one can be found by searching the title in Google Scholar. The second one can be found the same way but the Harvard PDF link in GS is currently broken; I re-searched the title in regular Google, which led me to another Harvard page with a fresh PDF download link.
Sorry for not finding them myself; that is embarrassingly easy.
You're hardly the first. :)
"Possible observation of tachyons associated with extensive air showers" RW Clay, PC Crouch - 1974 - nature.com
Here.
Thanks.
Converting relative risks to absolute risks: A graphical approach http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.4780080603/abstract
Here.
(I can't get it.)
Thank you for trying.
"Effects of LED-backlit computer screen and emotional selfregulation on human melatonin production", Sroykham & Wongsawa 2013.
Here.
Thanks.
Absorption of nicotine by the human stomach and its effect on gastric ion fluxes and potential difference
Here.
Thanks.