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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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Beaver dam analogs did not improve beaver translocation outcomes in a desert river

Christine Sandbach, Julie K. Young, Mary Conner et al. · 2024 · Restoration Ecology

Stream restoration programs employ beaver‐related restoration techniques, including beaver translocations and installation of beaver dam analogs (BDA), to create complex in‐stream habitat. We investigated whether BDA installations improved…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/rec.14107Cited by 3
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Did the ERAS Protocol Improve Our Results in Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer Surgery?

Özgül Düzgün, Pırıltı Özcan, Mehmet Faik Özçelik · 2022 · Journal of Personalized Medicine

ERAS is a protocol consisting of multidisciplinary approaches, including patient education, fluid resuscitation, keeping patients’ innormothermic state, early feeding, and mobilization. We aimed to present and compare the postoperative…

View details →DOI: 10.3390/jpm12101549Cited by 3
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Preoperative walking intervention did not appear to improve patient-reported postoperative recovery in older adults with frailty traits: Randomized trial

Hammad Sadiq, Sanjeev Rampam, Jay Patel et al. · 2022 · Medicine

Objectives: To assess the impact of a preoperative walking intervention on improving postoperative recovery in at-risk frail older adult patients. Study Type: Unblinded, randomized controlled trial which assigned patients to intervention…

View details →DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000030689Cited by 3
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Degenerative lumbar changes have a statistically significant but small effect on trabecular bone score (TBS)-adjusted fracture risk (FRAX)

Malik E. Juweid, Dana Alselaibi, Hiba Abandeh et al. · 2023 · Medicine

Trabecular bone score (TBS) assesses trabecular microarchitecture at the lumbar spine and was shown to improve fracture risk prediction compared to bone mineral density (BMD) alone. We investigated whether lumbar degenerative changes (DC)…

View details →DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000036082Cited by 2
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Patients Undergoing Elective Inpatient Major Therapeutic Procedures in Florida Had No Significant Change in Hospital Mortality or Mortality-Related Comorbidities Between 2007 and 2019

Richard H. Epstein, Franklin Dexter, Brenda G. Fahy · 2023 · Anesthesia & Analgesia

BACKGROUND: In a recent study, rapid response team implementation at 1 hospital was associated with only a 0.1% reduction in inpatient mortality from 2005 to 2018, characterized in the accompanying editorial as a “tepid” improvement. The…

View details →DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006494Cited by 2
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Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys

Brooke D Goodman, Kyle A Lima, Seth Benz et al. · 2025 · Ornithological Applications

Abstract Point counts are integral to bird population monitoring, and multiple methods have been developed to improve their reliability. These methods include multiple-observer protocols, double-sampling, and surveys using autonomous…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/ornithapp/duaf049Cited by 2
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Conventional machine learning-based prediction models did not outperform the International IgA Nephropathy Prediction Tool

Sehoon Park, Yisak Kim, Chung Hee Baek et al. · 2025 · Kidney Research and Clinical Practice

Background: Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is a major cause of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). The International IgA Nephropathy Prediction Tool (IIgAN-PT) predicts IgAN prognosis, but improvement in the prediction performance using…

View details →DOI: 10.23876/j.krcp.23.212Cited by 2
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Identification of Most Significant Parameter of Impact of Climate Change and Urbanization on Operational Efficiency of Hydropower Plant

Priyanka Majumder, Apu Kumar Saha · 2019 · International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering

The operational performance of hydropower plants (HPPs) is largely affected as the output from the plant entirely depends on the rainfall and demand from consumers both of which are compromised due to the vulnerability in climatic patterns…

View details →DOI: 10.4018/ijeoe.2019070103Cited by 2
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Did an Intervention Programme Aimed at Strengthening the Maternal and Child Health Services in Nigeria Improve the Completeness of Routine Health Data Within the Health Management Information System?

Benjamin Uzochukwu, Tolib Mirzoev, Chinyere Okeke et al. · 2020 · International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Background: During 2012-2015, the Federal Government of Nigeria launched the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, a health system strengthening (HSS) programme with a Maternal and Child Health component (Subsidy Reinvestment and…

View details →DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.226Cited by 2
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A single session of a beach volleyball exergame did not improve state anxiety level in healthy adult women

Vinnycius Nunes de Oliveira, Ricardo Borges Viana, João Victor Rosa de Freitas et al. · 2024 · BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation

Abstract This study evaluated the acute effect of the exergame Kinect Sports ® beach volleyball on state anxiety level in adult women. Thirty healthy adult women (age: 21 [4] years, body mass: 54.70 [19.50] kg, height: 1.61 ± 0.05 m, and…

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s13102-024-00859-9Cited by 2
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Did the Inclusion of China’s A‐Shares in the MSCI Index Improve the Information Content of Listed Firms? Analysis Based on Stock Price Synchronisation and Environmental Social Governance

Jing Wu · 2022 · Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Chinese A‐shares were officially included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Emerging Markets Index from June 2018. The inclusion of the A‐share market into the MSCI Index is one of the most influential events in the…

View details →DOI: 10.1155/2022/7623580Cited by 2
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How did New Zealand’s regional District Health Board groupings work to improve service integration and health outcomes: a realist evaluation

Erin Penno, Carol Atmore, Brett Maclennan et al. · 2023 · BMJ Open

Objectives In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), integration across the healthcare continuum has been a key approach to strengthening the health system and improving health outcomes. A key example has been four regional District Health Board (DHB)…

View details →DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079268Cited by 2
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Abstract 16996: Controlled Pauses (“Stutter”) CPR Did Not Improve ROSC or 4-hour Survival in a Porcine Model of VF-induced Cardiac Arrest

Alexander Esibov, Tyson G Taylor, Sharon B Melnick et al. · 2015 · Circulation

Introduction: Ischemic post-conditioning (IPC) has shown promise in mitigating ischemia-reperfusion injury. Controlled pauses during CPR (CP-CPR) following cardiac arrest (CA) and prolonged downtime may help invoke IPC mechanisms and have…

View details →DOI: 10.1161/circ.132.suppl_3.16996Cited by 2
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Rice yield in Costa Rican Central Pacific did not improve with a urease inhibitor

Ana Gabriela Pérez-Castillo, Weynner Giraldo-Sanclemente, Mayela Monge-Muñoz et al. · 2024 · Frontiers in Agronomy

Urea is widely used as nitrogen (N) source for rice fertilization in Costa Rica, despite its low efficiency linked to ammonia losses. To assess urea management alternatives, two field experiments were conducted in the Central Pacific…

View details →DOI: 10.3389/fagro.2024.1394143Cited by 2
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Did Recent Voice Reforms Improve Good Governance within the World Bank?

Jonathan R. Strand, Kenneth J. Retzl · 2016 · Development and Change

ABSTRACT Using the concept of good governance, this article assesses how voting rules in the World Bank Group's primary loan facility determine members’ ability to influence the formation of winning coalitions in the Executive Board. In…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/dech.12231Cited by 2
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Selecting goats for juniper consumption did not improve their liver Phase I detoxification

John W Walker, Brian M Shoemake, Danilo G Quadros et al. · 2023 · Journal of Animal Science

Abstract A sodium pentobarbital-induced sleep time study was conducted on 15 adult intact male Boer × Spanish goats selected for high (J+, n = 7) or low (J−, n = 8) juniper consumption (estimated breeding values of 13.1 ± 1.0 and −14.3 ±…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/jas/skad180Cited by 2
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Rituxiamb Did Not Improve Clinical Outcomes In AIDS-Related Burkitt Lymphoma

Hideyuki Yamamoto, Shotaro Hagiwara, Yuki Kojima et al. · 2011 · Blood

Abstract Abstract 1629 Background: With the widespread use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the prognosis of HIV infected subjects has been improved, even if with AIDS-related lymphoma. Burkitt lymphoma progresses very…

View details →DOI: 10.1182/blood.v118.21.1629.1629Cited by 2
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The “Mnemonic Time-Travel Effect”

Laura Mieth, Raoul Bell, Axel Buchner · 2019 · Experimental Psychology

Abstract. This registered report aims at replicating the so-called “mnemonic time-travel” effect. Aksentijevic, Brandt, Tsakanikos, and Thorpe (2019) reported that memory was improved when their participants experienced backward motion…

View details →DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000461Cited by 1
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Analysis of the Existing Statistically Significant Difference between the Indicators of the Initial and Final Measurement after the Implementation of a Comprehensive Programme of Sport Improvement in Orienteering for Students from the Technical University of Sofia, Plovdiv Branch

Daniel Vladimirov · 2025 · Strategies for Policy in Science and Education-Strategii na Obrazovatelnata i Nauchnata Politika

From December 2016 to December 2018, a comprehensive study was conducted to analyze the results of an advanced orienteering training and training program introduced. A comparative analysis was also used in the analysis of the research…

View details →DOI: 10.53656/str2025-2s-11-danCited by 1
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Effect of biotin starvation on gene expression in industrially significant yeast Komagataella phaffii

Anastasia S. Makeeva, Anton V. Sidorin, Valeriia V. Ishtuganova et al. · 2023 · Ecological genetics

Komagataella phaffii(Pichia pastoris) is known to be an excellent producer of recombinant proteins for industrial and research purposes. Protein synthesis improvement in this yeast includes selection of optimal cultivation parameters [1,…

View details →DOI: 10.17816/ecogen568379Cited by 1
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192 Abundance of rumen methanogens did not differ in cattle that differed in residual feed intake

Harvey C Freetly, Amanda K Lindholm-Perry, Andrew P Foote et al. · 2020 · Journal of Animal Science

Abstract Methane represents an energetic loss, and it has been proposed that its reduction may be associated with improved feed efficiency. Rumen methanogens produce most of the methane. Forty-nine crossbred heifers were individually fed a…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/jas/skaa278.274Cited by 1
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A novel approach to off-clamp partial nephrectomy demonstrates significant improvements in renal injury in an experimental porcine model

Daniel Olvera-Posada, Shouzhe Lin, Ghaleb Aboalsamh et al. · 2017 · Canadian Urological Association Journal

Introduction: We sought to design a partial nephrectomy (PN) with contralateral total nephrectomy porcine model and assess the underlying mechanisms of ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) after PN using a novel, clinically approved resection…

View details →DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.4305Cited by 1
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School leadership and organizational change: does teacher innovative behaviour play a significant role?

Grace Damptey Manu, Michael Osei Aboagye, Seth Yeboah Ntim et al. · 2025 · International Journal of Educational Management

Purpose The implementation of school improvement initiatives – such as Ghana’s standards-based curriculum (SBC) – necessitates transformational and contextually responsive school leadership. In line with this, the recent primary school…

View details →DOI: 10.1108/ijem-09-2024-0531Cited by 1
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Outcome of Second Line Treatment in Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Did Not Improve 2002-2013: A Population-Based Study from a Well-Defined Geographic Region

Anna Asklid, Agnes Mattsson, Einar Björgvinsson et al. · 2015 · Blood

Abstract Background: Treatment of relapsed or refractory (R/R) chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) remains challenging. Major progress has been achieved with new agents such as ibrutinib and idelalisib. However relapses still occur with…

View details →DOI: 10.1182/blood.v126.23.4166.4166Cited by 1