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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.
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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
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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)
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joes.12032/abstract
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.1222/pdf
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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://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=206689557&ETOC=RN&from=searchengine
here apologies about the delay.
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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.
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Couldn't get the last one.
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/
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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."
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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?
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 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.
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.
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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. :)
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.
"Possible observation of tachyons associated with extensive air showers" RW Clay, PC Crouch - 1974 - nature.com
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Converting relative risks to absolute risks: A graphical approach http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.4780080603/abstract
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"Effects of LED-backlit computer screen and emotional selfregulation on human melatonin production", Sroykham & Wongsawa 2013.
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Absorption of nicotine by the human stomach and its effect on gastric ion fluxes and potential difference
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W. Krull 1930/1987 http://www.springerlink.com/content/3203036jq8v23484/ "The aesthetic viewpoint in mathematics"
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"Effects of nicotine on perceptual speed"
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Some iodine studies:
http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/1/277
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"The healthy donor effect: a matter of selection bias and confounding."
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03270.x/abstract
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"Sleep symptoms associated with intake of specific dietary nutrients", Grandner et al 2013 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jsr.12084/abstract
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Santos, Santos, and Shimony, "Implicitly preserving semantics during incremental knowledge base acquisition under uncertainty".
Santos, Wilkinson, and Santos, "Fusing multiple Bayesian knowledge sources".
The first describes a formalism called the Bayesian knowledge base that is more compact than the usual conditional probability table approach to a Bayesian network, along with other advantages; the second presents an algorithm for aggregating representations in this formalism.
I ran across this in a book on adversarial reasoning, and haven't found anything about it on LW (at least, not apparent from search results). Are paper summaries (e.g., explaining concepts like BKBs) suitable discussion posts?
Your first link seems to be open access already. Your second link is easily accessed through Google Scholar where a PDF is already linked.
I think so; the worst that could happen is you get downvoted.
D'oh. My "Elsevier == paywall" assumption kicked in too quickly. Thank you.
Situated cognition and learning environments: Roles, structures, and implications for design
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02300472 / http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/30220993?uid=3737976&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102636605971
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/182368464/1995-choi.pdf
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Gentzen’s Cut Elimination Theorem for Non-Logicians
Knowledge and Value, Tulane Studies in Philosophy Volume 21, 1972, pp 115-126
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I can't get it either, sorry.
http://philpapers.org/rec/MILGCE
The PDC appears to be offline, and although wayback machine has the Tulane page here, it doesn't seem like it has the pdf linked to by philpapers. Hopefully someone else can work with this.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't VincentYu provide #1 2 days ago?
Sheesh, I blame LW's commenting system. I still count this as my good deed for the year.
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Some modafinil-related papers:
1 - Wesensten
4 - Phenylpropanolamine
3 - The stimulant effect of modafinil on wakefulness is not associated with an increase in anxiety in mice. A comparison with dexamphetamine
Thanks for all the fulltexts.
Spaced repetition:
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2 - Two-year-olds learn novel nouns, verbs, and conventional actions from massed or distributed exposures. (Childers, Jane B)
Meta-science priors:
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2 - Chinese journal finds 31% of submissions plagiarized. (Yuehong Zhang)
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column from Scientific American Volume 242, Number 6, June, 1980. Paywalled here.
EDIT: escape characters
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"The Cognitive Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States"; I think this may be a republication of "The Economic Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States" (Feyrer et al 2008), but it's nice to be sure.
http://ge.tt/7Lwdwlj/v/1
Thanks. I've reuploaded to http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/182368464/2013-feyrer.pdf
Ken Binmore & Hyun Song Shin. Algorithmic knowledge and game theory. (Chapter 9 of Knowledge, Belief, and Strategic Interaction by Cristina Bicchieri.)
EDIT: Actually, I'd be pretty happy to see any paper containing both the phrases "common knowledge" and "Löb's theorem". This particular paper is probably not the only one.
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Sorry, can't get it. There's a Google Books version you might be able to use, but the UWash access is only to a physical copy.
As for your edit, well,
turn up some things that might be useful.
Thanks for looking! I'll try to get my hands on a physical copy, as the Google Books version has highly distracting page omissions.
Jeffrey Smith, "America's arsenal of nuclear time bombs", Washington Post National Weekly Edition, May 28-June 3, 1990
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15328031US0201_01 "Meta-Analysis and Power: Some Suggestions for the Use of Power in Research Synthesis"
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"Annual injection of vitamin D and fractures of aged bones", 1992 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00298497
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17828627 / http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13825580600788100 McMorris, Terry (09/2007). "Creatine Supplementation and Cognitive Performance in Elderly Individuals". Aging, neuropsychology, and cognition (1382-5585), 14 (5), p. 517
http://ge.tt/7Lwdwlj/v/0?c
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Got'em all, thanks.
Electronics (ISSN 0883-4989), volume 63 (1963), May 31 issue: "Chart Gives RLC Values for Critical Damping" by Arthur B. Moulton, pg6
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Got it.
Could you check the volume number and year? That combination doesn't match the library records on WorldCat.
Make sure you're not looking at a different Electronics, it describes at least two periodicals - I want the old trade magazine, the one that published Moore's law, not any academic journals.
But no, I'm not sure of the volume number, that was just my best guess. I'm working off a snippet in Google Books describing a reprint notice that year for the original article.
Requested. (I think it's on p. 34, vol. 36, no. 22, May 31, 1963. The TOC seems to be on p. 6.)
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10442215 May be hard to get.
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Osterweil (1992). "Cognitive function in non-demented older adults with hypothyroidism". Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) (0002-8614) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1556359