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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Yibin Xu, Yangyu Huang · 2019 · Security and Communication Networks
Blockchain mining should not be a game among power oligarchs. In this paper, we present the Multiple Winners Proof of Work Protocol (MWPoW), a mining-pool-like decentralised blockchain consensus protocol. MWPoW enables disadvantaged nodes…
Shuaiwen Wang, Haolei Weng, Arian Maleki · 2021 · Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA
Abstract A recently proposed SLOPE estimator [6] has been shown to adaptively achieve the minimax $\ell _2$ estimation rate under high-dimensional sparse linear regression models [25]. Such minimax optimality holds in the regime where the…
Tania Ionin, Maria Goldshtein, Tatiana Luchkina et al. · 2021 · Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Abstract This paper reports on an experimental investigation of what second language (L2) learners and heritage speakers of Russian know about the relationship between word order and information structure in Russian. The participants…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Constance A Gewa, Suzanne P Murphy, Robert E Weiss et al. · 2012 · Public Health Nutrition
Abstract Objective To examine changes in energy intake along with markers of dietary quality (animal-source energy and protein intakes) among household members in the presence of supplementary school feeding in rural Kenya. Design A…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tammas F. Loughran, Sarah E. Perkins‐Kirkpatrick, Lisa V. Alexander et al. · 2017 · Geophysical Research Letters
Abstract The influence of two El Niño types on the frequency of summer heat wave days in Australia is investigated using both observations and an atmospheric climate model. The two basic spatial variants of El Niño are the traditional…
Konstantinos Gkiouras, Maria-Eleftheria Choleva, Aikaterini Verrou et al. · 2022 · Nutrients
Positive (statistically significant) findings are easily produced in nutrition research when specific aspects of the research design and analysis are not accounted for. To address this issue, recently, a pledge was made to reform nutrition…
Jonathan M. Lilly, Paula Pérez-Brunius · 2021 · Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
Abstract. A method for objectively extracting the displacement signals associated with coherent eddies from Lagrangian trajectories is presented, refined, and applied to a large dataset of 3770 surface drifters from the Gulf of Mexico. The…
Shova Mishra, Peter DiGennaro · 2020 · Journal of Nematology
Abstract Root-knot nematodes (RKN; Meloidogyne spp.) are obligate plant parasites that require constant communication with their host to establish and maintain specialized feeding cells. The intimacy of this interaction likely requires…
Kerry A. Rogers, Jennifer A. Woyach · 2024 · Hematology
Abstract Frontline therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has substantially advanced in the previous decade. While monotherapy with a Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor is an excellent option for many patients, combination…
Juan Bernardo Villarreal-Espinosa, Zeeshan A. Khan, Kyleen Jan et al. · 2025 · The American Journal of Sports Medicine
Background: Critical analysis of studies with high level of evidence has relied on the significance set by the reported P values. However, this strategy steers readers toward categorical interpretation of the data; therefore, a more…
Andrey Borisov, Alexey Bosov, Gregory Miller · 2022 · Mathematics
The paper presents an optimal control problem for the partially observable stochastic differential system driven by an external Markov jump process. The available controlled observations are indirect and corrupted by some Wiener noise. The…
Rune Elvik, Alena Høye · 2022 · Traffic Safety Research
The number of traffic fatalities has declined by 80-90 % from the all-time peak number in many highly motorized countries. It would be of great interest to identify factors that explain this decline. Unfortunately, this is difficult, and…
Riyam Mistry, Fadi Issa · 2022 · Frontiers in Surgery
Introduction Paediatric burns are a common clinical presentation. The long-term scar outcomes in paediatric burns patients are relatively unknown as most are discharged after 6 weeks follow up, apart from the small number that are followed…
Oscar A. Chavez, Walter Renberg, Natalia Cernicchiaro · 2024 · American Journal of Veterinary Research
Abstract OBJECTIVE Effect of photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) in patients with CCLR after TPLO surgery by measuring C-reactive protein (CRP), percentage weight bearing, lameness using a short form of a composite measure pain scale,…
D. Gary Harlow · 2023 · Metals
It has been known for at least 150 years that fatigue life data exhibits a considerable amount of variability. Furthermore, statistically modeling fatigue life adequately is challenging. Different empirical approaches have been used, each…
Menghui Duan, Huanming Xiao, Meijie Shi et al. · 2024 · BMC Infectious Diseases
Abstract Background and aims Numerous HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with persistently normal ALT have significant liver histopathology. It is imperative to identify true “immune tolerant” patients. We aimed to evaluate…
Debankur Sanyal, Avik Mukherjee, Amin Rahhal et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Soil Science
Introduction Cover crop (CC) is an essential tool to improve or maintain soil health, potentially improving cash crop productivity. Several recent reports of cash crop yield reduction following cover cropping necessitated this research to…
Omar N. A. Demerdash, Amanda Buyan, Julie C Mitchell · 2010 · Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics
Abstract We present a computationally efficient method for flexible refinement of docking predictions that reflects observed motions within a protein's structural class. Using structural homologs, we derive deformation models that capture…
Tianxing Pang, Jianping Peng, Ruiling Bian et al. · 2022 · Biology
RNA silencing is a host innate antiviral mechanism which acts via the synthesis of viral-derived small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs). We have previously reported the infection of phytopathogenic fungi by plant viruses such as cucumber mosaic…