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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JAMIE L. BENHAM, JANE E. BOOTH, MARY J. DUNBAR et al. · 2020 · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
ABSTRACT Introduction The Diabetes Aerobic and Resistance Exercise trial found that aerobic training and resistance training alone each reduced hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) compared with nonexercising controls, and combined aerobic and…
Aimara Planillo, Juan E. Malo · 2017 · Ecology and Evolution
Abstract Human disturbance is widespread across landscapes in the form of roads that alter wildlife populations. Knowing which road features are responsible for the species response and their relevance in comparison with environmental…
Eun-Kyoung Rosa Lee, Colin Phillips · 2022 · Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Abstract It is well-known that native English speakers sometimes erroneously accept subject-verb agreement violations when there is a number-matching attractor (e.g., *The key to the cabinets were…). Whether bilinguals whose L1 lacks…
David Winship Taylor, Hongqi Li · 2018 · eLife
The discovery of a fossil that might be the oldest flowering plant will continue the debate on the origin and structure of ancestral flowering plants.
Mohammad Nourani, Qian Long Kweh, Wen-Min Lu et al. · 2022 · Financial Innovation
Abstract This study examines the efficiency of investment trust companies (ITCs) from 2011 to 2020 using a meta-frontier two-stage network data envelopment analysis (DEA) based on the directional distance function (DDF). We improved the…
Henry W. Caplan, Karthik S. Prabhakara, Naama E. Toledano Furman et al. · 2021 · PLOS ONE
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes both physical disruption of the blood brain barrier (BBB) and altered immune responses that can lead to significant secondary brain injury and chronic inflammation within the central nervous system…
Till Francke, Gabriele Baroni, Arlena Brosinsky et al. · 2018 · Water Resources Research
Abstract Modelers can improve a model by addressing the causes for the model errors (data errors and structural errors). This leads to implementing model enhancements (MEs), for example, meteorological data based on more monitoring…
Elysia Larson, Godfrey M Mbaruku, Jessica Cohen et al. · 2019 · International Journal for Quality in Health Care
Abstract Objective To test the success of a maternal healthcare quality improvement intervention in actually improving quality. Design Cluster-randomized controlled study with implementation evaluation; we randomized 12 primary care…
Robin-Tobias Jauss, Sophia Schließke, Rami Abou Jamra · 2022 · Genes
Routine diagnostics is biased towards genes and variants with satisfactory evidence, but rare disorders with only little confirmation of their pathogenicity might be missed. Many of these genes can, however, be considered relevant,…
Vikram Sharma, Tanujit Dey, Kesavan Sankaramangalam et al. · 2019 · Journal of the American Heart Association
Background Troponin elevation occurs commonly in the setting of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). There is a lack of information on the extent of troponin elevation post TAVR that is prognostically significant. We assessed the…
Rui Guan, Xueyuan Li, Per Hofvander et al. · 2015 · Lipids
Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate the importance of three enzymes, LPCAT, PDCT and PDAT, involved in acyl turnover in phosphatidylcholine in order to explore the possibility of further increasing erucic acid (22:1) content in…
Behrooz Ghorbani, Song Mei, Theodor Misiakiewicz et al. · 2021 · Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
Abstract For a certain scaling of the initialization of stochastic gradient descent (SGD), wide neural networks (NN) have been shown to be well approximated by reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) methods. Recent empirical work showed…
Howard Cooke, Rianne Appel-Meulenbroek, Theo Arentze · 2019 · International Journal of Strategic Property Management
This paper seeks to understand whether the alignment process between business strategy and Corporate Real Estate (CRE) between 2007 and 2014 was dynamic. It investigated the financial data of 230 UK companies by means of a distributed time…
Kärt Simre, Oivi Uibo, Aleksandr Peet et al. · 2019 · Acta Paediatrica
Abstract Aim Our aim was to compare the presence of various common viruses (rhinovirus, enterovirus, adenovirus, Epstein–Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, norovirus, parechovirus) in stool and nasal swab samples as well as virus‐specific…
Joshua Hascher, Nitisha Desai, Ian Krajbich · 2021 · Judgment and Decision Making
Abstract A core principle in decision science is that people choose according to their subjective values. These values are often measured using unincentivized scales with arbitrary units (e.g., from 0 to 10) or using incentivized…
Yumeng Zhang, Premsai Kumar, Jacob J. Adashek et al. · 2022 · Cells
Modulating the cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) pathway has improved responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in certain solid tumors, such as melanoma. Little is known about COX-2 inhibition in response to ICIs in metastatic renal cell…
Gabriela Yamazaki de Campos, Raquel Amorim Oliveira, Patrícia Kellen Martins Oliveira-Brito et al. · 2020 · PeerJ
Background The macrophage lineage is characterized by plasticity due to the acquisition of distinct functional phenotypes, and two major subsets are evaluated; classical M1 activation (strong microbicidal activity) and alternative M2…
Paul C. Moorehead, Nicholas J. Barrowman, Janelle Cyr et al. · 2017 · Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Objective: There are no proven methods to predict the risk of clinically significant bleeding in the PICU. A retrospective study identified platelet count as a risk marker for clinically significant bleeding. We conducted a study to…
Heido Trofimov, Nicolas Bellouin, Velle Toll · 2020 · Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Abstract Aerosols offset a poorly quantified fraction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas warming, and the aerosol impact on clouds is the most uncertain mechanism of anthropogenic climate forcing. Here observations of a relatively weak…
CHARLOTTA GRUNEWALD, STELLAN HÅKANSSON, SISSEL SALTVEDT et al. · 2010 · Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
Abstract Objective. To evaluate the effects on neonatal morbidity of a regional change in induction policy for post‐term pregnancy from 43 +0 to 42 +0 gestational weeks (GWs). Design and setting. Nationwide retrospective register study…
Sandra Godinho, Margarida V. Garrido, Michael Zürn et al. · 2018 · Cognition & Emotion
Previous research has revealed a stable preference for words with inward consonantal-articulation patterns (from the front to the back of the mouth; e.g. BENOKA), over outward-words (from the back to the front; e.g. KENOBA). Following the…
Laurent Grégoire, Pierre Perruchet, Bénédicte Poulin-Charronnat · 2014 · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition
Most earlier studies investigating the evolution of the Stroop effect with the amount of reading practice have reported data consistent with an inverted U-shaped curve, whereby the Stroop effect appears early during reading acquisition,…
Gayle Jansen Brisbane, Patrick Ferrucci, Edson C. Tandoc · 2021 · Communication & Sport
Women are more visible than ever in sports media. Yet, extant research has shown that females have endured an array of issues exclusive to their gender. Consistent research updates on gender in sports media is necessary in order to…
Maija K. Pietilä, Irina C. Albulescu, Martijn J. van Hemert et al. · 2017 · Viruses
Semliki Forest virus (SFV) is an arthropod-borne alphavirus that induces membrane invaginations (spherules) in host cells. These harbor the viral replication complexes (RC) that synthesize viral RNA. Alphaviruses have four replicase or nonstructural proteins (nsPs), nsP1-4, expressed as polyprotein P1234. An early RC, which synthesizes minus-strand RNA, is formed by the polyprotein P123 and the polymerase nsP4. Further proteolytic cleavage results in a late RC consisting of nsP1-4 and synthesizing plus strands. Here, we show that only the late RCs are highly active in RNA synthesis in vitro. F
Nasrine Bendjilali, Helen Kim, Shantel Weinsheimer et al. · 2013 · PLoS ONE
BACKGROUND: Brain arteriovenous malformations (BAVM) are clusters of abnormal blood vessels, with shunting of blood from the arterial to venous circulation and a high risk of rupture and intracranial hemorrhage. Most BAVMs are sporadic, but also occur in patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia, a Mendelian disorder caused by mutations in genes in the transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) signaling pathway. METHODS: To investigate whether copy number variations (CNVs) contribute to risk of sporadic BAVM, we performed a genome-wide association study in 371 sporadic BAVM cases and 56
Nuno Gomes, Bettina M. Pause, Monique A. M. Smeets et al. · 2023 · Chemical Senses
Fear and anxiety are the most frequently studied emotional states in chemosignal research. Despite differences between these two emotional states, findings from research using fear and anxiety body odors (BOs) are often treated as part of…
Aditya Kumar Gudimella Tirumala, Shubham Mishra, Nritya Trivedi et al. · 2023 · Telematics and Informatics Reports
This article presents a study comparing the responses of two AI chatbots, ChatGPT and ChatSonic, regarding inquiries about epilepsy. Overall, ChatGPT and ChatSonic are very similar in terms of their capabilities and limitations and they…
Dooruj Rambaccussing, Murat Mazibaş · 2020 · Journal of risk and financial management
We test whether the selected cryptocurrencies exhibit long memory behavior in returns and volatility. We use data on five most traded cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and XRP. Using recent tests of long memory developed against persistent and nonlinear alternatives, this paper finds that long memory is mostly rejected in returns. The tests fail to reject the null hypothesis of long memory in most cases across different volatility proxies and cryptocurrencies. The estimated memory parameters show that volatility is persistent, and when volatility is measured by log r
Helen M Collins, Susan A. Greenfield · 2024 · International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease with no effective treatments, not least due to the lack of authentic animal models. Typically, rodent models recapitulate the effects but not causes of AD, such as cholinergic neuron loss: lesioning of cholinergic neurons mimics the cognitive decline reminiscent of AD but not its neuropathology. Alternative models rely on the overexpression of genes associated with familial AD, such as amyloid precursor protein, or have genetically amplified expression of mutant tau. Yet transgenic rodent models poorly replicate the neuropatho
Simone Di Plinio · 2022 · Frontiers in Psychology
Correlation coefficients are often compared to investigate data across multiple research fields, as they allow investigators to determine different degrees of correlation to independent variables. Even with adequate sample size, such differences may be minor but still scientifically relevant. To date, although much effort has gone into developing methods for estimating differences across correlation coefficients, adequate tools for variable sample sizes and correlational strengths have yet to be tested. The present study evaluated four different methods for detecting the difference between two