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Lost Information: Unpublished Conference Papers
Pages 475-480

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From page 475...
... The exact figure of 48.5% of unpublished papers has been arrived at by investigating 383 contributions to four conferences of American societies. The papers presented at the following conventions were analysed: the 1948 and 1949 Annual Meetings of the Optical Society of America (called Meetings A and B hereafter)
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From page 476...
... . A similar warning prefaces the list of papers presented at the 1950 Winter Meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers: "These papers are not scheduled for publication In AIEE Transactions or AIEE Proceedings.
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From page 477...
... The six-line abstract published with those of the other papers presented at the meeting is the only source available for his findings of a decrease of viscosity with water vapour; this result is in direct contrast to the widely reported increase with moisture found by other scientists. For over thirty years it has been impossible to verify the accuracy of this statement.
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From page 478...
... This example shows the potential unreliability of a hurriedly prepared prepublication abstract, which may perhaps explain the above-mentioned controversial findings by Stearns, and also the danger of relying too much on such abstracts which yet may be the only information available. The third example relates to the 132nd meeting of the American Chemical Society held in New York on September 8-13, 1957.
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From page 479...
... Inst. Radio Engrs., 37 (2)
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