A searchable index of real negative results, null findings, and replication failures from the published literature — so you can learn what didn't work before repeating it.
WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record (title, authors, DOI) compiled from open scholarly databases, with the abstract shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed (e.g. Creative Commons); otherwise a short excerpt is shown for reference under fair use. WASTE classifies each work by failure type; classifications are automated and approximate.
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Vladimir Nikitović, Vesna Lukić · 2010 · International Migration
Abstract Serbia still hosts the largest number of forced migrants in Europe. The paper examines the impact of the refugee influx from newly formed states on the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) into Serbia…
Shiekh Marifatul Haq, Muhammad Waheed, Riyaz Ahmad et al. · 2023 · Biology
The distribution of large ungulates is more often negatively impacted by the changing climate, especially global warming and species with limited distributional zones. While developing conservation action plans for the threatened species…
Hunter Warwick, Carolyn Hutyra, Cary Politzer et al. · 2019 · Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
Abstract Background The generalizability of data derived from patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) depends largely on the proportion of the relevant population that completes PROM surveys. However, PROM survey responses remain low,…
Michael Hoppe, Alastair B. Ross, Cecilia Svelander et al. · 2018 · European Journal of Nutrition
Abstract Purpose To investigate the effects of eating wholegrain rye bread with high or low amounts of phytate on iron status in women under free-living conditions. Methods In this 12-week, randomized, parallel-design intervention study,…
Gabriëlle J. M. Tuijthof, M. M. de Vaal, I. N. Sierevelt et al. · 2011 · Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy
PURPOSE: During arthroscopies, bleeding episodes occur as a result of tissue damage. Irrigation systems assist in minimizing these disturbances. The performance of three arthroscopic irrigation systems in clearing bleeding episodes was…
Muna Canales, Terri Blackwell, Areef Ishani et al. · 2016 · American Journal of Nephrology
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Recently, the first estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) formula specifically developed for community-dwelling older adults, the Berlin Initiative Study Equation 2 (BIS2), was…
R. G. Waruna Jinadasa, Bihong Li, Benjamin Schmitz et al. · 2016 · ChemSusChem
Abstract A series of monobenzoporphyrins ( WH1 – WH4 ) bearing different conjugated spacer groups were designed and synthesized as sensitizers for dye‐sensitized solar cells. Although a phenyl spacer only has a minimal impact on the…
E. S. Skordas, N. V. Sarlis, P. A. Varotsos · 2010 · Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
Electric field variations that appear before rupture have been recently studied by employing the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) to quantify their long-range temporal correlations. These studies revealed that seismic electric signal…
Xinyang Zhang, Alexander Palevski, Aharon Kapitulnik · 2022 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Resistivity saturation is found on both superconducting and insulating sides of an “avoided” magnetic-field-tuned superconductor-to-insulator transition (H-SIT) in a two-dimensional In/InO x composite, where the anomalous metallic behavior…
Tomoaki Natsukawa, Norikazu Maeda, Shiro Fukuda et al. · 2017 · Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
AIMS: Adiponectin, an adipocyte-specific secretory protein, abundantly exists in the blood stream while its concentration paradoxically decreases in obesity. Hypoadiponectinemia is one of risks of cardiovascular diseases. However, impact…
Holger Hopp, Teresa Kieseier, Jenny Jakisch et al. · 2021 · Multilingua
Abstract This paper reports findings of a project on pedagogical translanguaging (PTL) among 128 fourth-grade students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in German primary schools. Over a period of six months, 20% of lesson time…
Shaharudin Jakpar, Michael Tinggi, Akmal Hisham Tak et al. · 2018 · UNIMAS Review of Accounting and Finance
This study is conducted to analyse the credibility of the fundamental analysis and technical analysis on predicting the stock return and compare both models to determine which model is more credible to be used as a good trading strategy by…
Anton Kotelyanskii, Gregory M. Kapfhammer · 2014
Although search-based test-data generators, like EvoSuite, efficiently and automatically create effective JUnit test suites for Java classes, these tools are often difficult to configure. Prior work by Arcuri and Fraser revealed that the…
Shan-Chuan Teng, Yunn-Wen Lien · 2022 · PLoS ONE
Mind wandering has been argued to be beneficial for breaking through mental impasses, which leads to better creative performance upon a second attempt (i.e., the incubation effect). However, the evidence is inconsistent. Different from the propensity for mind wandering that has been the focus of past studies, in this study we further examined the role of diversity (i.e., non-repetitiveness of mind wandering respective to its content) and types of mind wandering along the dimensions of intentionality and awareness during incubation when engaging in a 0-back task (a mind wandering-prone conditio
Thomas Milic · 2015 · Swiss Political Science Review
Abstract After the vote of 9 February 2014, many attributed the surprising result to voter ignorance. The basic claim was that the majority of those voting in favour of the initiative possessed only a weak understanding of what the likely…
Mark van Veen, Inge van Weeghel, Bauke Koekkoek et al. · 2014 · International Journal of Social Psychiatry
BACKGROUND: Risk of suicide is notoriously difficult to assess, and no gold standard is available, in terms of an instrument of first choice. Many different instruments are in use, among which are some that are not properly…
Axel Åkerblom, Lars Wallentin, Anders Larsson et al. · 2013 · Clinical Chemistry
BACKGROUND: The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) independently predicts cardiovascular death or myocardial infarction (MI) and can be estimated by creatinine and cystatin C concentrations. We evaluated 2 different cystatin C…
Sorena Keihani, Douglas Rogers, Bryn Putbrese et al. · 2019 · The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
BACKGROUND: In 2018, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) published revisions to the renal injury grading system to reflect the increased reliance on computed tomography scans and non-operative management of high-grade…
Charlotte Lindblad Wollmann, Kyle D. Hart, Can Liu et al. · 2020 · Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica
INTRODUCTION: Predicting a woman's probability of vaginal birth after cesarean could facilitate the antenatal decision-making process. Having a previous vaginal birth strongly predicts vaginal birth after cesarean. Delivery outcome in…
Clarin Collins · 2014 · Education Policy Analysis Archives
This study examined the SAS Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS®) in practice, as perceived and experienced by teachers in the Southwest School District (SSD). To evaluate teacher effectiveness, SSD is using SAS EVAAS® for…
Daniel Lee, Gwendolyn Gardiner, Erica Baranski et al. · 2020 · Journal of Personality
OBJECTIVE: The current study seeks to replicate and extend principal findings reported in The World at 7:00, a project that examined the psychological experience of situations in 20 countries. METHOD: Data were collected from participants…
Yue Yang, Dominic B. Rowe, Heather McCann et al. · 2023 · Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology
AIMS: Although the orally available brain-penetrant copper compound CuATSM has demonstrated promising effects in SOD1-linked mouse models, the impact of CuATSM on disease pathology in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) remains unknown. METHODS: The present study set out to address this deficit by performing the first pilot comparative analysis of ALS pathology in patients that had been administered CuATSM and riluzole [N = 6 cases composed of ALS-TDP (n = 5) and ALS-SOD1 (n = 1)] versus riluzole only [N = 6 cases composed of ALS-TDP (n = 4) and ALS-SOD1 (n = 2)]. RESULTS: Our re
Michelle Beam, Angela G. Spencer, Lauralee Fernandez et al. · 2018 · American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
larvae (neurocysticercosis) is a leading cause of preventable epilepsy worldwide. Effective and sustainable strategies to control parasite transmission in rural endemic communities are needed to prevent the disease. Surveillance and…
Irina Travkina, Manuela Tvaronavičienė · 2015 · Journal of Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues
The research paper discusses the relationship between international trade, especially export, and the economic growth, presented by GDP, in Lithuania over the period of 2000-2015 years. The analysis is started by the historical review of possible types of relationships between exports and economic growth. Furthermore, the paper presents four theoretical propositions as export-led growth (1), growth-driven export (2), a feedback relationship (3) and simple contemporaneous relationship (4). This study examines the importance of the export-led growth hypothesis for Lithuania. The testing is based
Duncan G.J. Green, Jinhee Kim, Stephen J. Kish et al. · 2021 · Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Background: Upregulation of the endocannabinoid enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) has been linked to abnormal activity in frontoamygdalar circuits, a hallmark of posttraumatic stress disorder. We tested the hypothesis that FAAH…
Pamela Laird, Roz Walker, Mary Lane et al. · 2019 · Respirology
ABSTRACT Background and objective Chronic lung disease is prevalent among Australian Aboriginal children. Chronic wet cough is an early marker of disease but often goes undetected. Currently, no studies have examined health practitioner…
Geovani de Oliveira Ribeiro, Antônio Charlys da Costa, Danielle Elise Gill et al. · 2021 · Scientific Reports
Classical insect-flaviviruses (cISFVs) and dual host-related insect-specific flavivirus (dISFV) are within the major group of insect-specific flavivirus. Remarkably dISFV are evolutionarily related to some of the pathogenic flavivirus, such as Zika and dengue viruses. The Evolutionary relatedness of dISFV to flavivirus allowed us to investigate the evolutionary principle of host adaptation. Additionally, dISFV can be used for the development of flavivirus vaccines and to explore underlying principles of mammalian pathogenicity. Here we describe the genetic characterization of a novel putative
Rebecca Fisher, David R. Fox · 2023 · Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
The no-effect concentration (NEC) is the preferred threshold metric for single-species toxicity tests applied to derive safe concentration thresholds for contaminants in the environment for use in species sensitivity distributions.…
Leah Wetherill, Dongbing Lai, Emma C. Johnson et al. · 2019 · Genes Brain & Behavior
Abstract Genetic influences on alcohol and drug dependence partially overlap, however, specific loci underlying this overlap remain unclear. We conducted a genome‐wide association study (GWAS) of a phenotype representing alcohol or illicit…
Marina Reyne, Myles Nolan, Henry McGuiggan et al. · 2020 · Journal of Applied Ecology
Abstract Farmland ponds are a highly threatened freshwater habitat which has undergone dramatic losses during the last 200 years due to land drainage schemes and agricultural intensification. Agri‐environment schemes (AES) incentivize farmers to adopt farming methods to benefit biodiversity, yet there are a paucity of data evaluating the success of artificially created AES ponds as analogues of natural ponds in an attempt to recreate lost environments. We examined variation in environmental parameters and aquatic and terrestrial invertebrate communities between 38 natural ponds and 91 artifici