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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

Water radial arm maze performance.

Tristan G. Pesaresi (6751925), Grayson Breneman Ashby (6751931), Min-Ken Liao (6751934) et al. · 2019

Working memory correct (A), working memory incorrect (B) and reference memory (C) errors over the 12 days of testing are shown between low fat and high fat-fed rats. There were no significant differences between dietary group for any of…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

Birth Order and past-Orientation

Christopher D. Green, Gladys M. Batten, Anton F. De Man et al. · 1983

Three studies examined Adler's suggestion that firstborns are past-oriented. The first study of the relationship between birthorder and temporal relatedness and dominance in 37 female undergraduates yielded no significant differences. The…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

A. Box plot of the maximum decrease of temperatures from the baseline.

Ayako Asakura (711890), Takahisa Goto (711892), Takahiro Mihara (789554) · 2015

No significant differences were detected among the groups, but the maximum decreases tended to be smaller in the CHO and ORS groups than in the control group. B. Box plot of the final temperature changes at the end of surgery. No…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

The MINERVA study design and rationale: A controlled randomized trial to assess the clinical benefit of minimizing ventricular pacing in pacemaker patients with atrial tachyarrhythmias

Manolis AS, Padeletti L., Mont L et al. · 2008

Dual-chamber (DDD) pacing has generally been regarded as "physiologic pacing" and therefore expected to be superior to ventricular pacing. Major randomized trials have so far failed to demonstrate significant reductions in the incidences…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

Transient Crossed Aphasia: A Case Study with SPECT

José M. Ferro, Guilhermina Cantinho, Élia Baeta · 1991

A 45-year-old right-handed man developed “crossed” anomie aphasia, neglect and inaccurate reaching of his left arm in both hemispaces due to a right parietal haemorrhage. Aphasia cleared in a few days. SPECT failed to demonstrate crossed…

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Failed Experiment ReportOpen access

Mental rehearsal and skill acquisition in sports

Jim Sheedy (20157615) · 2009

Mental rehearsal is thought to have positive effects upon the learning and retention of gross motor skills such as those demanded in many sports. A field study using 30 participants from the sport of lawn bowls failed to demonstrate a…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

Subscriptions: Information about subscribing to Stroke is online at at UNIV OF EDINBURGH on Comments, Opinions, and Reviews Good Laboratory Practice Preventing Introduction of Bias at the Bench

Marc Fisher, Ulrich Dirnagl, Geoffrey A Donnan et al. · 2020

Background and Purpose-As a research community, we have failed to demonstrate that drugs which show substantial efficacy in animal models of cerebral ischemia can also improve outcome in human stroke. Summary of Review-Accumulating…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

Feasibility of progesterone treatment for ischaemic stroke

Claire L. Gibson (6162488), Philip M. Bath (3111867) · 2015

Two multi-centre phase III clinical trials examining the protective potential of progesterone following traumatic brain injury have recently failed to demonstrate any improvement in outcome. Thus, it is timely to consider how this impacts…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

Feasibility of progesterone treatment for ischaemic stroke

Claire L. Gibson (6162488), Philip M. Bath (3111867) · 2015

Two multi-centre phase III clinical trials examining the protective potential of progesterone following traumatic brain injury have recently failed to demonstrate any improvement in outcome. Thus, it is timely to consider how this impacts…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

Influence of Job Familiarity on Job Evaluation Ratings

Kaupins, Gundars · 1990

The effect of job familiarity on job evaluation ratings was investigated. Data came from a survey of 222 personnel specialists and middle to upper level managers. The results failed to show significant associations between various measures…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

Patent foramen ovale : story closed?

Schellinger, Peter Dieter, Steiner, Thorsten, Köhrmann, Martin et al. · 2019

The optimal treatment strategy for secondary prevention in patients with cryptogenic stroke and patent foramen ovale (PFO) has been a matter of controversy for decades. After three randomized trials failed to show a benefit of closure with…

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Null DatasetOpen access

Hypera (Eririnomorphus) kunzei Germar 1822

Volovnik, Semyon, Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij et al. · 2018

Hypera (Eririnomorphus) kunzei Germar, 1822 Records. KYI [Cherkunov 1889: 188] Distribution. Central Europe (Skuhrovec 2013) Notes. We failed to find any H. kunzei in material from Ukraine. Meanwhile it resembles H. conmaculata which is…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen access

On the Actual EPR Detection of Thioacyl Radicals

Maurizio Guerra (1268337), Angelo Alberti (2426320), Serge Masson (2426323) et al. · 2016

The direct EPR detection of thioacyl radicals has been reported only once, while thioacyl nitroxides remain an elusive species. We failed to detect the thioacyl radicals from two thioaldehydes and from phosphoryldithioformates but have…

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