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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Luke Macyszyn, Hamed Akbari, Jared Pisapia et al. · 2015 · Neuro-Oncology
BACKGROUND: MRI characteristics of brain gliomas have been used to predict clinical outcome and molecular tumor characteristics. However, previously reported imaging biomarkers have not been sufficiently accurate or reproducible to enter…
Daniele Tori, Özlem Onaran · 2017 · Cambridge Journal of Economics
This paper estimates the effects of financialization on physical investment in the UK using panel data based on balance-sheets of publicly listed non-financial companies supplied by Worldscope for the period 1985-2013. We find robust…
Lorena Gómez‐Aparicio, Raúl García‐Valdés, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito et al. · 2011 · Global Change Biology
Most large-scale multispecies studies of tree growth have been conducted in tropical and cool temperate forests, whereas Mediterranean water-limited ecosystems have received much less attention. This limits our understanding of how growth…
Peng Chen, Yeong Gug Kim · 2014 · Journal of Internet Commerce
This study uses the Stimuli-Organism-Response framework to examine how consumers’ reasons for shopping and website stimuli affect their attitudes toward online shopping, their ability to regulate their emotional purchases, and their…
Petra Valíčková, Tomáš Havránek, Roman Horváth · 2014 · Journal of Economic Surveys
Abstract We analyze 1334 estimates from 67 studies that examine the effect of financial development on economic growth. Taken together, the studies imply a positive and statistically significant effect, but the individual estimates vary…
Kenneth E. Kunkel, David R. Easterling, David A. R. Kristovich et al. · 2012 · Journal of Hydrometeorology
Abstract Daily extreme precipitation events, exceeding a threshold for a 1-in-5-yr occurrence, were identified from a network of 935 Cooperative Observer stations for the period of 1908–2009. Each event was assigned a meteorological cause,…
Alexander Klemm, Stefan Van Parys, Prepared Alex et al. · 2012
This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe…
Naser Hoboubi, Alireza Choobineh, Fatemeh Kamari Ghanavati et al. · 2016 · Safety and Health at Work
BACKGROUND: Job stress and job satisfaction are important factors affecting workforce productivity. This study was carried out to investigate the job stress, job satisfaction, and workforce productivity levels, to examine the effects of…
Oliver Falck, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich · 2014 · American Economic Review
This paper analyzes the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony…
Bahareh Asadishad, Shawninder Chahal, Ali Akbari et al. · 2018 · Environmental Science & Technology
Several types of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) are being considered for direct application to soils to reduce the application and degradation of pesticides, provide micronutrients, control pathogens, and increase crop yields. This study…
Thomas Sullivan, Ian R. White, Amy Salter et al. · 2016 · Statistical Methods in Medical Research
The use of multiple imputation has increased markedly in recent years, and journal reviewers may expect to see multiple imputation used to handle missing data. However in randomized trials, where treatment group is always observed and…
E Eijgelaar, Carla Thaper, Paul Peeters · 2010 · Journal of Sustainable Tourism
This paper examines a paradoxical issue in tourism's adaptation to climate change and emissions reduction demands. Operators increasingly take tourists to destinations threatened by climate change, with Antarctica and other polar regions…
Eugenio Proto, Climent Quintana‐Domeque · 2021 · PLoS ONE
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre-COVID-19 pandemic (2017-2019) and during-COVID-19 pandemic data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health as measured by changes in the GHQ-12 (General Health Questionnaire), among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the previously documented average deterioration in mental health for the whole sample of individuals interviewed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, we find that the average increase in mental distress varies by ethnicity and gender. Both women -regardl
Ashish K. Jha, Karen E. Joynt, E. John Orav et al. · 2012 · New England Journal of Medicine
BACKGROUND: Pay for performance has become a central strategy in the drive to improve health care. We assessed the long-term effect of the Medicare Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) on patient outcomes. METHODS: We…
Xiaobo Wang, Xiao‐Tao Lü, Jing Yao et al. · 2017 · The ISME Journal
The existence of biogeographic patterns among most free-living microbial taxa has been well established, yet little is known about the underlying mechanisms that shape these patterns. Here, we examined soil bacterial β-diversity across…
Arash Vahdat, Ali Alizadeh, Sara Quach et al. · 2020 · Australasian Marketing Journal (AMJ)
This study investigates how technology acceptance model (TAM) factors and social factors determine customer purchase intention. Although previous studies on mobile apps have investigated TAM, critical social factors have been neglected,…
Gregor Kennedy, Terry Judd, Barney Dalgarno et al. · 2010 · Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
Abstract Previously assumed to be a homogenous and highly skilled group with respect to information and communications technology, the so‐called Net Generation has instead been shown to possess a diverse range of technology skills and…
Claudette E. Loo, Marieke E. Straver, Sjoerd Rodenhuis et al. · 2011 · Journal of Clinical Oncology
PURPOSE: To evaluate the relevance of breast cancer subtypes for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) markers for monitoring of therapy response during neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). PATIENTS AND METHODS: MRI examinations were performed in…
Noah Anderson, Julia R. Kelson, Sándor Kele et al. · 2021 · Geophysical Research Letters
Abstract The potential for carbonate clumped isotope thermometry to independently constrain both the formation temperature of carbonate minerals and fluid oxygen isotope composition allows insight into long‐standing questions in the Earth…
Mounir El Asmar, Awad S. Hanna, Wei‐Yin Loh · 2013 · Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Integrated project delivery (IPD) is an emerging construction project delivery system that collaboratively involves key participants very early in the project timeline, often before the design is started. It is distinguished by a…
Xiaobo Lü, Pierre F. Landry · 2014 · American Political Science Review
We argue that interjurisdiction competition in authoritarian regimes engenders a specific logic for taxation. Promotion-seeking local officials are incentivized to signal loyalty and competence to their principals through tangible fiscal…
Bjarne M. Nes, Imre Janszky, Ulrik Wisløff et al. · 2012 · Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
Maximal heart rate (HRmax ) declines substantially with age, but the magnitude and possible modifying effect of gender, body composition, and physical activity are not fully established. The present study examined the relationship between…
Lu Liu, En‐Ze Wang, Chien‐Chiang Lee · 2020 · Energy RESEARCH LETTERS
This research explores the interaction among the COVID-19 pandemic, crude oil market and stock market in the U.S. by utilizing a time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) model. Our results indicate that there is a negative connection between crude oil returns and stock returns. Interestingly, contrary to our intuition, we find that the COVID-19 pandemic cannot exert a negative effect but has a statistically significantly positive effect on crude oil returns and stock returns.
Song‐Yi Park, Neal D. Freedman, Christopher A. Haiman et al. · 2017 · Annals of Internal Medicine
BACKGROUND: Coffee consumption has been associated with reduced risk for death in prospective cohort studies; however, data in nonwhites are sparse. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association of coffee consumption with risk for total and…
Mante S. Nieuwland, Stephen Politzer‐Ahles, Evelien Heyselaar et al. · 2018 · eLife
Do people routinely pre-activate the meaning and even the phonological form of upcoming words? The most acclaimed evidence for phonological prediction comes from a 2005 Nature Neuroscience publication by DeLong, Urbach and Kutas, who observed a graded modulation of electrical brain potentials (N400) to nouns and preceding articles by the probability that people use a word to continue the sentence fragment (‘cloze’). In our direct replication study spanning 9 laboratories (N=334), pre-registered replication-analyses and exploratory Bayes factor analyses successfully replicated the noun-results
Marc-André Schulz, B.T. Thomas Yeo, Joshua T Vogelstein et al. · 2020 · Nature Communications
Recently, deep learning has unlocked unprecedented success in various domains, especially using images, text, and speech. However, deep learning is only beneficial if the data have nonlinear relationships and if they are exploitable at available sample sizes. We systematically profiled the performance of deep, kernel, and linear models as a function of sample size on UKBiobank brain images against established machine learning references. On MNIST and Zalando Fashion, prediction accuracy consistently improves when escalating from linear models to shallow-nonlinear models, and further improves w
Katarzyna Jednoróg, Irène Altarelli, Karla Monzalvo et al. · 2012 · PLoS ONE
Children's cognitive abilities and school achievements are deeply affected by parental socioeconomic status (SES). Numerous studies have reported lower cognitive performance in relation to unfavorable environments, but little is known about the effects of SES on the child's neural structures. Here, we systematically explore the association between SES and brain anatomy through MRI in a group of 23 healthy 10-year-old children with a wide range of parental SES. We confirm behaviorally that language is one of the cognitive domains most affected by SES. Furthermore, we observe widespread modifica
Roberto Decarli, Fabian Walter, Bram P. Venemans et al. · 2018 · The Astrophysical Journal
Abstract We present a survey of the [C ii ] 158 μ m line and underlying far-infrared (FIR) dust continuum emission in a sample of 27 quasars using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) at resolution. The [C ii ] line was significantly…
Jessica E. Tierney, Martin P. Tingley · 2018 · Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Abstract The alkenone‐based U proxy is a cornerstone of paleoclimatology, providing insight into the temperature history of the Earth's surface ocean. Although the relationship between U and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) is robust and…
Paul J. Ferraro, Merlin M. Hanauer, Katharine R. E. Sims · 2011 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Protected areas are the dominant approach to protecting biodiversity and the supply of ecosystem services. Because these protected areas are often placed in regions with widespread poverty and because they can limit agricultural…