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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Xiang Zheng, Chaoqun Ni · 2024 · Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Abstract COVID‐19 has emerged as a major research hotspot and trending topic in recent years, leading to increased publications and citations of related papers. While concerns exist about the potential citation boost in journals publishing…
Samta Jain, Smita Kashiramka, P.K. Jain · 2020 · Review of International Business and Strategy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of cross-border acquisitions (CBAs) on the financial and operating performance of acquiring firms from emerging economies in the long-term; the acquiring firms have been segregated…
Yao Luo, Hui Shi, Weiqiang Wang · 2021 · Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management
Abstract The frequency of extreme wave events is increasing with climate change. The temporal and spatial variations of extreme wave height affect both human livelihood and the usage of ocean resources. The South China Sea and northern…
Christine F. Schubert, Ulrike Schmidt, Hannah Comtesse et al. · 2019 · Stress and Health
Abstract Posttraumatic growth (PTG) may play a role in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as it is supposed to have either beneficial or dysfunctional effects on treatment‐related PTS symptom (PTSS) changes. This study…
Markus Luger, Christoph Böhler, Stephan E. Puchner et al. · 2024 · Bone & Joint Research
Aims Serum inflammatory parameters are widely used to aid in diagnosing a periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Due to their limited performances in the literature, novel and more accurate biomarkers are needed. Serum albumin-to-globulin…
Margareth Chiharu Iwata, Livia Porquere, Isabel C. Espósito Sorpreso et al. · 2015 · Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
Summary Objective: Objective: to compare clinical and laboratory parameters in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) using metformin or combined oral contraceptive (COC) after 6 months. Methods: retrospective study analyzing records…
Timo Saloviita · 2016 · Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Facilitated communication (FC) has been interpreted as an ideomotor phenomenon, in which one person physically supports another person’s hand and unconsciously affects the content of the writing. Despite the strong experimental evidence…
Oumaima Alaika, Souad Jamai, Nawal Doghmi et al. · 2020 · Journal of the Saudi Heart Association
Objectives: Speckle-tracking imaging is a novel method for assessing left ventricular (LV) function and ischemic changes. The aim of this prospective study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of global longitudinal strain (GLS) and…
Ryuhei Wada, Jiro Takeuchi, Tsukasa Nakamura et al. · 2020 · Applied Clinical Informatics
Abstract Background Medication dose adjustment is crucial for patients with renal dysfunction (RD). The assessment of renal function is generally mandatory; however, the renal function may change during the hospital stay and the manual…
Luana Damasceno, Ana Carolina B. Terzian, Trevon Fuller et al. · 2021 · Viruses
The Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic in Brazil occurred in regions where dengue viruses (DENV) are historically endemic. We investigated the differences in adverse pregnancy/infant outcomes in two cohorts comprising 114 pregnant women with…
Chanaka Bulathsinghalage, Lu Liu · 2020 · BMC Bioinformatics
Abstract Background Chromosome conformation capture-based methods, especially Hi-C, enable scientists to detect genome-wide chromatin interactions and study the spatial organization of chromatin, which plays important roles in gene…
Xiangde Yang, Kang Ni, Lifeng Ma et al. · 2022 · Agronomy
Although annual return of litter occurs in tea (Camellia sinensis L.) plantations, the level of soil organic carbon (SOC) therein remains relatively low. The exact impacts of pruned litter on soil and its association with SOC accumulation…
Murside Degirmenci, Yilmaz Kemal Yuce, Yalcin Isler · 2022 · Journal of Intelligent Systems with Applications
Motor Imaginary (MI) electroencephalography (EEG) signals are obtained when a subject imagines a task without essentially applying it. The accurate decoding of MI EEG signals plays an important role in the design of brain-computer…
Sascha Caron, Roberto Ruiz de Austri, Zhongyi Zhang · 2023 · Journal of High Energy Physics
A bstract Model-independent search strategies have been increasingly proposed in recent years because on the one hand there has been no clear signal for new physics and on the other hand there is a lack of a highly probable and…
J. Elijah Powell, Erick V.S. Motta, Joanito Liberti et al. · 2025 · Royal Society Open Science
The western honeybee, Apis mellifera, harbours a simple and distinct microbiota that has been linked to various positive outcomes for the host. Among these cited benefits is improved weight gain for bees that have been inoculated with…
Fernando Tormos‐Aponte, James E. Wright, Heath Brown · 2021 · Social Science Quarterly
Abstract Objective This article identifies the role of structural racism in policy implementation and argues that a starting point to evaluate the potential outcomes of calls for systemic change is to better situate racism in the study of…
Mayank Sachan, Arnab Bhattacharya · 2012 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
The problem of identification of statistically significant patterns in a sequence of data has been applied to many domains such as intrusion detection systems, financial models, web-click records, automated monitoring systems,…
Xuda Xu, Feng Jiang, Jianxiang Li et al. · 2024 · Materials
With the rapid development of the new energy vehicle market, the demand for extruded profiles for battery trays, mainly characterized by significant wall thickness differences in multiple chambers, is increasing, posing new challenges to…
Tiao Su, Xinle Huang, Liu Yang et al. · 2023 · Arthroscopy
Purpose To compare the outcomes of arthroscopic labral repair using looped type suture with a matched‐pair selective labral debridement with a minimum 2‐years follow‐up. Methods We identified 378 patients undergoing primary arthroscopic…
Ozcan OTKUN · 2020 · Politeknik Dergisi
Speed monitoring of electric motors has attracted the attention of many researchers from past to present. Induction Motor (IM), which is one of the electric motor types, falls behind the nominal speed in different loads. This study was…
Li Cao, Younes Hmimsa, Salama El fatehi et al. · 2023 · Scientific Reports
Abstract For thousands of years, humans have domesticated different plants by selecting for particular characters, often affecting less-known traits, including the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by these plants for defense or…
Ahmet Surucu, Tieying Hou, Matthew Kuhar et al. · 2023 · Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology
PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx is an FDA-approved companion test to select patients for anti-PD-L1 immunotherapy. In head and neck squamous cell carcinoma PD-L1 expression is determined using a Combined Positive Score (CPS), which evaluates…
Andrew E Jaffe, John D Storey, Hongkai Ji et al. · 2013 · BMC Bioinformatics
Abstract Background Significance analysis plays a major role in identifying and ranking genes, transcription factor binding sites, DNA methylation regions, and other high-throughput features associated with illness. We propose a new…
Roberta De Bei, Lukas Papagiannis, Sigfredo Fuentes et al. · 2020 · OENO One
Aim: Shoot thinning is a common canopy management practice used to obtain a desired shoot density and to improve canopy microclimate. Since thinning is often carried out manually, the cost can be high. In this study the effect of severe…
Aditi Majumdar, Christina Salas, William Chavez et al. · 2021 · Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation
Purpose To biomechanically compare intramedullary (IM) versus extramedullary (EM) distal biceps button fixation under cyclic loading conditions, which is most representative of postoperative physiologic status. Methods This controlled…
Per M. Kristoffersen, Nils Vetti, Lars Grøvle et al. · 2022 · Spine
Study Design. Exploratory subgroup analyses of a randomised trial [Antibiotics in Modic changes (AIM) study]. Objective. The aim was to assess the effect of amoxicillin versus placebo in reducing Modic change (MC) edema in patients with…
Giselle Owens, Robert Heinsohn, Sam Eyles et al. · 2020 · Ecological Management & Restoration
Summary Fear may elicit behavioural and physiological responses in animals. We conducted a pilot study aiming to reduce bird nest predation in Tasmania by the introduced Sugar Glider ( Petaurus breviceps ) by broadcasting calls of…
Francesca Borgonovi, Gabriele Marconi · 2020 · Open Education Studies
Abstract Lack of comparable cross-country data on access to and participation into higher education (HE) among disadvantaged and marginalised communities prevents a comprehensive examination of the role of education in shaping social…
Matthew J Orringer, Nirav K Pandya · 2021 · International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching
Background Particularly at the level of professional athletics, injury prevention is of critical importance. We hypothesized that elevated in-game statistics over a period of 3-10 games places increased cumulative stress on players’ joints…
Richard Lu, Vu Tran Hoang, Wing-Keung Wong · 2020 · Studies in Economics and Finance
Purpose The literature has demonstrated that lump-sum (LS) outperforms dollar-cost averaging (DCA) in uptrend markets while DCA outperforms LS only when the asset price is mean-reverted or downtrend. To bridge the gap in the literature,…