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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Sarah Ingber, Rita Selby, Jacques Lee et al. · 2014 · CJEM
ABSTRACT Introduction: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is difficult to diagnose yet potentially life threatening. A low-risk pretest probability (PTP) assessment combined with a negative Ddimer can rule out VTE in two-thirds of outpatients,…
Kendall K. Mills, Kyndall P. B. Hildebrandt, Kathryn M. Everson et al. · 2024 · Scientific Reports
Abstract Pacific Walruses ( Odobenus rosmarus divergens [Illiger 1815]) are gregarious marine mammals considered to be sentinels of the Arctic because of their dependence on sea ice for feeding, molting, and parturition. Like many other…
Maria Prats-Llinàs, Joaquim Bellvert, Mercè Mata et al. · 2019 · Agronomy
Future increases in temperatures are expected to advance grapevine phenology and shift ripening to warmer months, leaving a longer post-harvest period with warmer temperatures. Accumulation of carbohydrates occurs during post-harvest, and…
Brandon J. Barnes, Cherry Abdou, Kyle Wendling et al. · 2020 · Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics B
The aim of the study was to determine if the use of an Instructional Video will decrease anxiety during cast removal. We enrolled 60 healthy children undergoing their first cast removal following conservative fracture treatment. Patients…
Hendrik CC de Jonge, Jacqueline Lagendijk, Unnati Saha et al. · 2019 · BMJ Open
Objectives To study the effect of an urban perinatal health programme in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on perinatal outcomes. Design A retrospective cohort study with difference-in-differences analysis using individual-level perinatal…
Elizabeth Reifsnider, Cha‐Nam Shin, Michael Todd et al. · 2016 · Research in Nursing & Health
Abstract Growth stunting is a complex phenomenon related to undernutrition that can contribute to developmental delay, cognitive deficits, and small size and obesity in adulthood. Stunted growth, defined as height for age below the 5th…
Neng Shen, Jing Zhang, Yangchun Cao · 2024 · Business Process Management Journal
Purpose In the context of open innovation, more and more enterprises are leveraging innovation networks to drive disruptive innovation performance, but there is no consensus on the relationship between network embeddedness and enterprise…
Seunghyup Lee, Mingee Choi, Dahyun Kim et al. · 2022 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
This study examined the temporal trend of smoking use and the prevalent differences in the use of different types of cigarettes for Korean adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Korea, all use of e-cigarettes, including…
Simon Condliffe, Matt B. Saboe, Sabrina Terrizzi · 2017 · Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of the recent Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Dependent Mandate (DM) that requires health insurers to extend dependent coverage to the children of their insured, up to age 26. The DM…
Safiyya Randera-Rees, Wende Clarence Safari, Dickman Gareta et al. · 2023 · Wellcome Open Research
Background: HIV-negative men are over-represented in tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys including the first South African national TB prevalence survey in 2018. Traditionally, TB screening is focused in clinics. We aimed to determine the…
Cory J. Clark, Paul Connor, Calvin Isch · 2023 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
With a sample of 228 psychology papers that failed to replicate, we tested whether the trajectory of citation patterns changes following the publication of a failure to replicate. Across models, we found consistent evidence that failing to…
Bukola Usidame, Gang Meng, James F Thrasher et al. · 2022 · Nicotine & Tobacco Research
Abstract Introduction Using a quasiexperimental design, we compared the impact of the 2000 Canadian introduction of graphic warning labels (GWLs) on differences in smoking prevalence by sex and education, to the United States, where no…
Eijun Sueyoshi, Tomonori Murakami, Xi He et al. · 2022 · Medicine
Abstract The differences between the pathologies of cases of type A acute aortic dissection (AAD) that did and did not result in prehospital death (PHD) have not been fully elucidated. This study aimed to compare the CT findings and…
NL Watkins, LA Schipper, GP Sparling et al. · 2012 · New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research
Abstract The effectiveness of multiple small doses of the nitrification inhibitor dicyandiamide (DCD) to decrease denitrification under warm moist conditions was tested in a 1‐year field trial on a grazed dairy pasture. DCD was applied…
Jean-François Daoust, Frédérick Bastien · 2021 · Political Studies Review
Forecasting during the COVID-19 pandemic entails a great deal of uncertainty. The same way that we would like electoral forecasters to systematically include their confidence intervals to account for such uncertainty, we assume that…
Rudolf Poledne, J. A. Hubáček, V. Staněk et al. · 2010 · Folia Biologica
The apoprotein E gene ranks among the most discussed candidate genes for cardiovascular disease. We studied whether the association between apoprotein E gene polymorphism and manifestation of acute coronary syndrome is modulated by the…
Juan Ramón Ferrer, María‐Carmen García‐Cortijo, Juan‐Sebastián Castillo Valero et al. · 2023 · Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
Abstract The fight against climate change has become a basic vector for agri‐food business strategies. In Spain, commercial wineries (Investor Owner Firms, IOFs) and cooperatives are facing major challenges in adapting to the most…
Mi-Sook Kim, Seong Huan Choi, Jang-Whan Bae et al. · 2021 · PLOS ONE
Introduction Inter-hospital transfer (IHT) and primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are preferred over onsite thrombolysis when provided expeditiously. On the other hand, its benefit has not been evaluated in a real-world…
Woo‐yeol Lee, Sun‐Joo Cho · 2017 · Journal of Educational Measurement
Cross‐level invariance in a multilevel item response model can be investigated by testing whether the within‐level item discriminations are equal to the between‐level item discriminations. Testing the cross‐level invariance assumption is…
Wayne Hall · 2013 · F1000Research
This article assesses the evidence for the hypothesis that a decline in all types of crime since the early 1990s in the USA was an unintended consequence of removing lead from petrol between 1975 and 1985. It describes ecological and…
Safiyya Randera-Rees, Wende Clarence Safari, Dickman Gareta et al. · 2021 · Wellcome Open Research
Background: HIV-negative men are over-represented in tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys including the first South African national TB prevalence survey in 2018. Traditionally, TB screening is focused in clinics. We aimed to determine the…
Ryan M. Degen, Andrew Firth, Herman Sehmbi et al. · 2023 · Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
Abstract Purpose To determine whether different regimens of multimodal analgesia will reduce postoperative pain scores, opioid consumption, costs and hospital length‐of‐stay following hip arthroscopy. Methods From 2018 to 2021, 132…
Simone Bergonzoli, Massimo Brambilla, Elio Romano et al. · 2020 · Agronomy
Irrigation with wastewater can strongly contribute to the reduction of water abstraction in agriculture with an especial interest in arid and semiarid areas. However, its use can have drawbacks to both soil and micro-irrigation systems,…
E. Kathleen Adams, Katya Galactionova, Genevieve M. Kenney · 2015 · INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Effects of Medicaid family planning waivers on unintended births and contraceptive use postpartum were examined in Illinois, New York, and Oregon using the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System. Estimates for women who would be…
Daichi Tsuna · 2021 · Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Abstract In a failed supernova, partial ejection of the progenitor’s outer envelope can occur due to weakening of the core’s gravity by neutrino emission in the protoneutron star phase. We consider emission when this ejecta sweeps up the…
Sumit Kumar Ram, Shyam Nandan, Didier Sornette · 2022 · Scientific Reports
Abstract We investigate the predictability and persistence of individual and team performance (hot-hand effect) by analyzing the complete recorded history of international cricket. We introduce an original temporal representation of…
Alexander A. Kutepov, Ladislav Rezac, Artem G. Feofilov · 2017 · Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Abstract. Since January 2004, the planetary Fourier spectrometer (PFS) on board the Mars Express satellite has been recording near-infrared limb spectra of high quality up to the tangent altitudes ≈ 150 km, with potential information on…
Hossein Ghalenavi, Saeid Norouzi-Apourvari, Mahin Schaffie et al. · 2019 · Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology
Abstract In reservoir simulation, the fluid composition is usually assumed uniform for the whole reservoir, while in many reservoirs, oil and gas composition changes with depth. This phenomenon which is known as compositional grading could…
Peter Baas, Jennifer D. Knoepp, Jacqueline E. Mohan · 2019 · Forests
Understanding the dominant soil nitrogen (N) cycling processes in southern Appalachian forests is crucial for predicting ecosystem responses to changing N deposition and climate. The role of anaerobic nitrogen cycling processes in…
Karin Kvale, Wolfgang Koeve, Nadine Mengis · 2021 · Frontiers in Marine Science
The impact of calcifying phytoplankton on atmospheric CO 2 concentration is determined by a number of factors, including their degree of ecological success as well as the buffering capacity of the ocean/marine sediment system. The relative…