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WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record compiled from open scholarly databases; the abstract is shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed, otherwise a short excerpt under fair use. Classifications are automated and approximate.

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Does Pain Self-efficacy influence Initial Forward Bending in Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain following Exercise? A Cohort Study.

McManus F, Pranata A, Simpson JA et al. · 2025 · International journal of sports physical therapy

Background/purpose Chronic low back pain affects how individuals bend. Whether pain self-efficacy, a term describing one's confidence in their ability to perform activities despite experiencing pain, affects how much people with chronic…

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Woody seeds and seedlings are unresponsive to herbivore kairomones.

Headrick KC, Pellegrini BA, Santiago EM et al. · 2026 · AoB PLANTS

Herbivory is particularly threatening to young plants that lack the resources needed to survive an attack. Seeds and seedlings should thus benefit greatly from using pre-attack cues to induce defence before damage. Locomotion mucus from…

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Does civilian oversight impact police legitimacy?

Schiff KJ, Schiff DS, Moy BJ et al. · 2025 · PNAS nexus

Does the implementation of external oversight in policing improve public perceptions of police legitimacy? Civilian review boards (CRBs) are frequently promoted as mechanisms to enhance the legitimacy of police agencies by providing…

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Infants Do Not Reliably Track When Bilingual Speakers Switch Languages.

Potter CE, Lew-Williams C · 2025 · Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

It is a widely held belief that bilingual infants benefit from hearing each of their languages spoken by different people, as speakers could serve as a cue for separating the two languages. However, it is not yet known whether infants…

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Comparison of oncological outcomes between wedge resection and segmentectomy for T1a/bN0M0 non-small-cell lung cancer: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

Zhang Z, Lian H, Huang L et al. · 2026 · International journal of surgery (London, England)

Background Sublobar resection, including wedge resection (WR) and segmental resection (SR) has been considered for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the optimal sublobar approach continues to be a subject of…

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No evidence that averaging voices influences attractiveness.

Ostrega J, Shiramizu V, Lee AJ et al. · 2024 · Scientific reports

Vocal attractiveness influences important social outcomes. While most research on the acoustic parameters that influence vocal attractiveness has focused on the possible roles of sexually dimorphic characteristics of voices, such as…

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Parietal theta burst TMS does not modulate bistable perception.

Schauer G, Grassi PR, Gharabaghi A et al. · 2024 · Neuroscience of consciousness

The role of the parietal cortex in perceptual awareness and in resolving perceptual ambiguity is unsettled. Early influential transcranial magnetic stimulation studies have revealed differences in conscious perception following parietal…

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The relationship between aging out of the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children assistance and weight status in kindergarten.

Lazic A, Thomsen MR, Brown CC et al. · 2025 · Preventive medicine reports

Objective The Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides access to nutritional resources to low-income children starting at birth through enrollment in kindergarten or turning five years old. The…

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Biomechanical Factors Associated with Intraindividual Differences in Running Economy Across Advanced Footwear Technology Models in Long-Distance Runners.

Fohrmann D, Schaffarczyk M, Menge C et al. · 2026 · Sports medicine - open

Background Advanced footwear technology (AFT) can enhance long-distance running performance by improving running economy (RE). However, the range of the individual improvements is large. Different intra-individual responses in running…

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Micronutrient Powders Combined With Malaria Chemoprevention to Improve Anaemia and Cognitive Function in Early Childhood in Mali: A Cluster-Randomised Trial.

Diarra NH, Dicko Y, Roschnik N et al. · 2025 · Maternal & child nutrition

A cluster-randomised controlled trial was conducted in 60 communities in southern Mali to evaluate the impact of micronutrient powders (MNP) combined with seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) on anaemia (primary endpoint), Plasmodium…

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Challenges in studying the interplay of genes and environment. A study of childhood financial distress moderating genetic predisposition for peak smoking.

Bierut L, Biroli P, Galama TJ et al. · 2023 · Journal Of Economic Psychology

Smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable disease and death in the U.S., and it is strongly influenced both by genetic predisposition and childhood adversity. Using polygenic indices (PGIs) of predisposition to smoking, we…

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Sensory sensitivity and visual discomfort are not associated with altered gamma oscillations: A test of the excitation-inhibition hypothesis.

Sumner P, Powell G, Price A et al. · 2026 · Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)

Many people experience aversive hypersensitivity (discomfort/visual stress) to stimuli such as bright lights, striped patterns, strobing, motion, or complex visual scenes such as supermarkets. Such sensory hypersensitivity is often…

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Weight cycling and cancer risk in the Sister Study.

Stevens VL, Priest J, Wilkerson J et al. · 2026 · American journal of epidemiology

Weight cycling, when weight is repeatedly lost intentionally and then regained, may perturb biological processes that could influence cancer development. However, results from epidemiologic studies of weight cycling are mixed and provide…

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