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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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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Pre-existing cross-reactive immunity to highly pathogenic avian influenza 2.3.4.4b A(H5N1) virus in the United States

Zhu‐Nan Li, Feng Liu, Yu‐Jin Jung et al. · 2025 · Nature Communications

The unprecedented 2.3.4.4b. A(H5N1) outbreak in dairy cattle, poultry, and spillover to humans in the United States (US) poses a major public health threat. Population immunity is a critical component of influenza pandemic risk assessment. We assessed the pre-existing cross-reactive immunity to 2.3.4.4b A(H5N1) viruses and analyzed 1794 sera from 723 people (0.5-88 yrs) in multiple US geographic regions during 2021-2024. Pre-existing neutralizing and hemagglutinin (HA)-head-binding antibodies to A(H5N1) were low, but there were substantial cross-reactive binding antibodies to N1 neuraminidase

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

CRISPR–Cas technologies in neurodegenerative disorders: mechanistic insights, therapeutic potential, and translational challenges

Raya Kh. Yashooa, Ari Q. Nabi, Shukur Wasman Smail et al. · 2026 · Frontiers in Neurology

CRISPR-Cas genome-editing technologies have emerged as powerful tools for precise DNA and RNA modulation, offering promising therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This review critically evaluates current CRISPR/Cas applications in neurodegeneration, with emphasis on mechanistic insights, therapeutic outcomes, and translational feasibility. Preclinical and early translational studies demonstrate that CRISPR-Cas platforms can correct pathogenic mutation

View details →DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2025.1737468Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEconomics, Econometrics and Finance

Green growth dynamics: unraveling the complex role of financial development and natural resources in shaping renewable energy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Alhasan Osman, Mohd Afjal, Majed Alharthi et al. · 2025 · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Abstract This study examines the complex interplay between financial development, natural resources, and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2020, highlighting the pivotal role of financial strategies in enhancing sustainable energy practices. Employing an array of analytical techniques, including panel-corrected standard errors (PCSE), fixed effects, random effects models, and panel-fixed quantile regression, we delve into the nuanced relationships among these critical variables. The findings reveal that while natural resources and financial development generally e

View details →DOI: 10.1057/s41599-025-04364-3Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The HDAC inhibitor romidepsin renders liver cancer vulnerable to RTK targeting and immunologically active

Celia Sequera, Margherita Grattarola, Floriane Cannet et al. · 2025 · Nature Communications

Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are epigenetic regulators frequently altered in cancer. Here we report that overexpression of HDAC1/2 occurs in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) patients, correlating with poor prognosis. We show that romidepsin,…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

CNN based method for classifying cervical cancer cells in pap smear images

Remita Austin, R. Parvathi · 2025 · Scientific Reports

The absence of reliable early treatment serves as one of the main causes of cervical cancer. Hence, it is crucial to detect cervical cancer early. The biggest challenge in diagnosing cervical cancer early is that it is asymptomatic until it develops into invasive carcinoma. In medical applications, the use of machine learning and deep learning is successful as a classifier in the preliminary identification of cancerous cells in the cervical region. In our study, we present a CNN-based method for the classification of cervical cancer cells. We present a method for accurately classifying Pap sme

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Identifying statistically significant combinatorial markers for survival analysis

Raissa Relator, Aika Terada, Jun Sese · 2018 · BMC Medical Genomics

BACKGROUND: Survival analysis methods have been widely applied in different areas of health and medicine, spanning over varying events of interest and target diseases. They can be utilized to provide relationships between the survival time of individuals and factors of interest, rendering them useful in searching for biomarkers in diseases such as cancer. However, some disease progression can be very unpredictable because the conventional approaches have failed to consider multiple-marker interactions. An exponential increase in the number of candidate markers requires large correction factor

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s12920-018-0346-xCited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

SΔϕ-60 — Utilitarian Subject-Splitting Index

Sofience · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

SΔϕ-60 introduces the Utilitarian Subject-Splitting Index, USSI, within the Sofience-Δϕ Formalism. The paper examines whether utilitarian calculation merely evaluates the happiness of already-existing majorities and minorities, or whether such calculation can first produce the operational boundary between majority and minority by redistributing Transition Completion Cost, TCC. The document begins with the Sofience Subject Thought Experiment. A person is imagined as capable of detaching and reattaching any part of the body while the detached parts remain alive, neurologically connected, and phy

View details →DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20077005Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

The role of agentic artificial intelligence in healthcare: a scoping review

Bernardo G. Collaco, Syed Ali Haider, Srinivasagam Prabha et al. · 2026 · npj Digital Medicine

Agentic AI represents a promising evolution of artificial intelligence in healthcare, with systems capable of operating autonomously to achieve defined clinical goals. However, the literature lacks conceptual clarity in distinguishing AI…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41746-026-02517-5Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Impact of transfer learning methods and dataset characteristics on generalization in birdsong classification

Burooj Ghani, Vincent J. Kalkman, Bob Planqué et al. · 2025 · Scientific Reports

Animal sounds can be recognised automatically by machine learning, and this has an important role to play in biodiversity monitoring. Yet despite increasingly impressive capabilities, bioacoustic species classifiers still exhibit imbalanced performance across species and habitats, especially in complex soundscapes. In this study, we explore the effectiveness of transfer learning in large-scale bird sound classification across various conditions, including single- and multi-label scenarios, and across different model architectures such as CNNs and Transformers. Our experiments demonstrate that

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-00996-2Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Mutualism breakdown underpins evolutionary rescue in an obligate cross-feeding bacterial consortium

Ignacio J. Melero‐Jiménez, Yael Sorokin, Ami Merlin et al. · 2025 · Nature Communications

Populations facing lethal environmental change can escape extinction through rapid genetic adaptation, a process known as evolutionary rescue. Despite extensive study, evolutionary rescue is largely unexplored in mutualistic communities, where it is likely constrained by the less adaptable partner. Here, we explored empirically the likelihood, population dynamics, and genetic mechanisms underpinning evolutionary rescue in an obligate mutualism involving cross-feeding of amino acids between auxotrophic Escherichia coli strains. We found that over 80% of populations overcame a severe decline whe

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58742-1Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEarth and Planetary Sciences

Evolutionary assembly of crown reptile anatomy clarified by late Paleozoic relatives of Neodiapsida

Xavier A. Jenkins, Roger Benson, David P. Ford et al. · 2025 · Peer Community Journal

Living reptiles include more than 20,000 species with disparate ecologies. Direct anatomical evidence from Neodiapsida, which includes the reptile crown-group and its closest extinct relatives, shows that this diversity originates from a single common ancestor that lived over 255 million years ago in the Paleozoic. However, the evolutionary assembly of crown reptile traits is poorly understood due to the lack of anatomically close relatives of Neodiapsida. We present a substantially revised phylogenetic hypothesis, informed by new anatomical data from high-resolution synchrotron tomography of

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics and Astronomy

Limits on the 21 cm Power Spectrum at z = 6.5–7.0 from Murchison Widefield Array Observations

Chuneeta D. Nunhokee, Donald M. Null, Cathryn M. Trott et al. · 2025 · The Astrophysical Journal

Abstract This paper presents the spherically averaged 21 cm power spectrum derived from Epoch of Reionization (EoR) observations conducted with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The analysis uses EoR0-field data, centered at (R.A. = 0 h , decl. = −27 ∘ ), collected between 2013 and 2023. Building on the improved methodology described in C. M. Trott et al. (2024), we incorporate additional data quality control techniques introduced in C. D. Nunhokee (2020). We report the lowest-power-level limits on the EoR power spectrum at redshifts z = 6.5, z = 6.8, and z = 7.0. These power levels, measur

View details →DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adda45Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Diagnosis value of targeted and metagenomic sequencing in respiratory tract infection

Yukun Kuang, Weiping Tan, Chaohui Hu et al. · 2024 · Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Background: Targeted next-generation sequencing (tNGS) has become a trending tool in the field of infection diagnosis, but concerns are also raising about its performance compared with metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS). This study aims to explore the clinical feasibility of a tNGS panel for respiratory tract infection diagnosis and compare it with mNGS in the same cohort of inpatients. Methods: 180 bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples were collected and sent to two centers for mNGS and tNGS blinded tests, respectively. The concordance between pathogen reports of both methods and th

View details →DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1498512Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Glycomacromolecules to Tailor Crowded and Heteromultivalent Glycocalyx Mimetics

Luca‐Cesare Blawitzki, Nina Bartels, Lorand Bonda et al. · 2024 · Biomacromolecules

The glycocalyx, a complex carbohydrate layer on cell surfaces, plays a crucial role in various biological processes. Understanding native glycocalyces' complexity is challenging due to their intricate and dynamic nature. Simplified mimics…

View details →DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.4c00646Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportPsychology

Higher Emotional Intelligence Is Associated With a Stronger Rubber Hand Illusion

Olga Perepelkina, Maria Boboleva, Галина Арина et al. · 2017 · Multisensory Research

The aim of the study was to investigate how emotion information processing factors, such as alexithymia and emotional intelligence, modulate body ownership and influence multisensory integration during the ‘rubber hand illusion’ (RHI)…

View details →DOI: 10.1163/22134808-00002577Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result Report

Statistically-Based Trend Analysis of MTInSAR Displacement Time Series

Fabio Bovenga, Guido Pasquariello, Alberto Refice · 2021 · Remote Sensing

Current multi-temporal interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (MTInSAR) datasets cover long time periods with regular temporal sampling. This allows high-rate and non-linear trends to be observed, which typically characterize pre-failure…

View details →DOI: 10.3390/rs13122302Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportSocial Sciences

Temporal shifts in Americans’ risk perceptions of the Zika outbreak

Branden B. Johnson, Marcus Mayorga · 2020 · Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International Journal

Cross-sectional surveys, despite their value, are unable to probe dynamics of risk perceptions over time. An earlier longitudinal panel study of Americans’ views on Ebola risk inspired this partial replication on Americans’ views of Zika…

View details →DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2020.1820852Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEngineering

Assessment of Worn Textile Antennas’ Exposure on the Physiological Parameters and Well-Being of Adults

Khuzairi Masrakin, Hasliza A. Rahim, Ping Jack Soh et al. · 2019 · IEEE Access

This paper presents the assessment of short-term wireless body area network (WBAN) exposure, which is operated at the industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band (2.45 GHz) in the vicinity of the human body. The experiment utilizes two popular textile antenna topologies, a planar monopole and a patch antenna as the radiating sources. The objective of this experiment is to investigate whether the exposure from WBAN may influence the physiological parameters (body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate) and the well-being of the wearer. Counter-balanced, crossover, and the single-blind m

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessEnvironmental Science

Resolving a heated debate: The utility of prescribed burning as a management tool for biodiversity on lowland heath

Barbara Smith, Dan Carpenter, J. M. Holland et al. · 2023 · Journal of Applied Ecology

Abstract Lowland heath is a priority habitat for conservation, nowadays largely managed for biodiversity. Historically, prescribed burning has been the principal management tool, but there are increasing calls to substitute burning with cutting to improve biodiversity outcomes. However, poor understanding of potential impacts compromises decision making. Our study was carried out in the New Forest National Park, the largest area of lowland heath in Europe. Using a multi‐trophic approach, we compared the ecological impact of prescribed burning with two types of vegetation cutting (swiping and b

View details →DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14471Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSocial Sciences

Validation of the Infant-Toddler HOME Inventory among Households in Low Income Communities at the Kenyan Coast

Penny Holding, Amina Abubakar, Elizabeth Obiero et al. · 2011

The aim of this paper is to describe the adaptations made to the Infant-Toddler version of the Home Observation Measure of the Environment for use in a low income Kenyan population. A total of 425 (214 girls) children aged 6-35 months were…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Subthalamic deep brain stimulation in Parkinson׳s disease has no significant effect on perceptual timing in the hundreds of milliseconds range

Thomas Cope, Manon Grube, Arnab Mandal et al. · 2014 · Neuropsychologia

Bilateral, high-frequency stimulation of the basal ganglia (STN-DBS) is in widespread use for the treatment of the motor symptoms of Parkinson׳s disease (PD). We present here the first psychophysical investigation of the effect of STN-DBS upon perceptual timing in the hundreds of milliseconds range, with both duration-based (absolute) and beat-based (relative) tasks; 13 patients with PD were assessed with their STN-DBS 'on', 'off', and then 'on' again. Paired parametric analyses revealed no statistically significant differences for any task according to DBS status. We demonstrate, from the exa

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Null DatasetOpen accessNeuroscience

Data visualization for inference in tomographic brain imaging

Cyril Pernet, Christopher R. Madan · 2019 · European Journal of Neuroscience

Tomographic imaging (i.e. magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], positron emission tomography [PET], X-ray computed tomography [CT]) offers a unique window in understanding structure-function relationships in the living brain. Nowadays, it is standard practice to acquire entire brain volumes and perform statistical analyses at each voxel, an approach known as statistical parametric mapping (Friston, Frith, Liddle, & Frackowiak, 1991). Because it is impossible to report the statistical results in every voxel, summary tables and figures are of importance. The choice made by authors to create such fig

View details →DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14430Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunology and Microbiology

HIV-1 adapts to lost IP6 coordination through second-site mutations that restore conical capsid assembly

Alex B. Kleinpeter, Donna L. Mallery, Nadine Renner et al. · 2024 · Nature Communications

The HIV-1 capsid is composed of capsid (CA) protein hexamers and pentamers (capsomers) that contain a central pore hypothesised to regulate capsid assembly and facilitate nucleotide import early during post-infection. These pore functions are mediated by two positively charged rings created by CA Arg-18 (R18) and Lys-25 (K25). Here we describe the forced evolution of viruses containing mutations in R18 and K25. Whilst R18 mutants fail to replicate, K25A viruses acquire compensating mutations that restore nearly wild-type replication fitness. These compensating mutations, which rescue reverse t

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Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Efficacy and safety of percutaneous cryoablation for elderly patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma: A prospective multicenter study

Jing Luo, Zheng Dong, Hui Xie et al. · 2022 · Liver International

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Management of elderly patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has become a major concern. Some data suggest that cryoablation improves the outcomes of elderly patients with HCC, but its efficacy and safety remain…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/liv.15169Cited by 13
Failed Experiment ReportPhysics and Astronomy

Factorial Correlators and Oscillatory Multiplicity Moments at the CERN SPS Energy for Ring-Like and Jet-Like Events

Prabir Kumar Haldar, Sanjib Kumar Manna · 2011 · Chinese Physics Letters

We present an analysis of ring-like and jet-like events in terms of factorial correlations and oscillatory multiplicity moments of 32S-Ag/Br interactions at 200 A GeV. The investigation reveals that the correlated moments increase with…

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Replication FailureOpen accessMedicine

Transarterial Chemoembolization Combined with Atezolizumab Plus Bevacizumab versus Transarterial Chemoembolization Alone in Intermediate‐stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Multicenter Retrospective Study

Yitao Zheng, Yan‐Jun Xiang, Hongqi Shi et al. · 2024 · Journal of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Purpose: Combining transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) with systemic therapy has shown significant efficacy for intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. This study aimed to validate the therapeutic efficacy of TACE…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

Examining the reliability and validity of two versions of the Effort-Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT)

Hanno Andreas Ohmann, Niclas Kuper, Jan Wacker · 2022 · PLoS ONE

The Effort-Expenditure for Rewards Task (EEfRT) has gained validity evidence from several studies. However, various modifications have been applied to the original version, which have never been compared systematically. In Study 1, we tested 120 healthy participants to directly compare two versions of the EEfRT. In Study 2, we tested a larger sample of 394 healthy participants to further examine the original EEfRT. We replicated the split-half reliability of both task versions. However, self-reported personality traits (e.g., trait BAS) correlated with only some task performance parameters in

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Detecting attention‐related rhythms: When is behavior not enough? (Commentary on van der Werf et al. 2021)

Ian C. Fiebelkorn · 2021 · European Journal of Neuroscience

Recent research suggests that environmental sampling is a fundamentally rhythmic process (Benedetto et al., 2019; Fiebelkorn & Kastner, 2019; Schroeder et al., 2010). In primates, both attention-related sampling and exploratory eye…

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Negative / Null Result Report

The Fragility Index of Statistically Significant Findings From Randomized Controlled Trials Comparing the Management Strategies of Anterior Shoulder Instability

Martin S. Davey, Eoghan T. Hurley, Tom R. Doyle et al. · 2022 · The American Journal of Sports Medicine

Background: Debate centering on the management of anterior shoulder instability (ASI) in recent years has led to many randomized controlled trials (RCTs) being published on the topic. The fragility index (FI) has subsequently emerged as a…

View details →DOI: 10.1177/03635465221077268Cited by 13
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

PRKCZmethylation is associated with sunlight exposure in a North American but not a Mediterranean population

Stella Aslibekyan, Hassan S. Dashti, Toshiko Tanaka et al. · 2014 · Chronobiology International

Sunlight exposure has been shown to alter DNA methylation patterns across several human cell-types, including T-lymphocytes. Since epigenetic changes establish gene expression profiles, changes in DNA methylation induced by sunlight…

View details →DOI: 10.3109/07420528.2014.944266Cited by 13