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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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Do fundamental portfolios outperform in the MENA equity markets?

Rasha Tawfiq Abadi, Florinda Silva · 2019 · International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management

Purpose This study aims to investigate the performance of fundamental weighted portfolios (using sales, cash flows, dividends, book values and a composite of all these variables), an equal weighted portfolio and a smoothed cap-weighted…

View details →DOI: 10.1108/imefm-07-2018-0230Cited by 4
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Effect of Significant Weight Change on Inappropriate Implantable Cardioverter‐Defibrillator Therapy

USAMA A. DAIMEE, YITSCHAK BITON, MEHMET K. AKTAS et al. · 2017 · Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Background Weight loss has been associated with adverse outcomes among heart failure (HF) patients, including those receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillator (CRT‐D). The effect of significant weight change on…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/pace.12973Cited by 4
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Simple Linear Cancer Risk Prediction Models With Novel Features Outperform Complex Approaches

Scott Kulm, Lior Kofman, Jason Mezey et al. · 2022 · JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics

PURPOSE The ability to accurately predict an individual's risk for cancer is critical to the implementation of precision prevention measures. Current cancer risk predictions are frequently made with simple models that use a few proven risk…

View details →DOI: 10.1200/cci.21.00166Cited by 4
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Variation of spring barley agronomic traits significant for adaption to climate change in latvian breeding programmes

Māra Bleidere, Ieva Mežaka, Linda Legzdiņa et al. · 2012 · Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Section B. Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences.

Variation of spring barley agronomic traits significant for adaption to climate change in latvian breeding programmes Breeding programmes have been recently challenged by climate change. Spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) yield,…

View details →DOI: 10.2478/v10046-011-0043-zCited by 4
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Association between cognitive diagnosis and a range of significant life events in an elderly essential tremor cohort: a longitudinal, prospective analysis

Diane S. Berry, Diep Nguyen, Stephanie Cosentino et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Neurology

Background Although essential tremor (ET) patients have greater odds of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia than age-matched controls, the functional consequences of these enhanced odds are unknown. We examined associations…

View details →DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1193220Cited by 4
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Mary, did you consent?

Blake Hereth · 2021 · Religious Studies

Abstract The Christian and Islamic doctrine of the virgin birth claim God asexually impregnated the Virgin Mary with Jesus, Mary's impregnation was fully consensual ( virgin consent ), and God never acts immorally ( divine goodness ).…

View details →DOI: 10.1017/s0034412521000226Cited by 4
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Causative organisms and antimicrobial susceptibility in jaundiced infants with significant bacteriuria

Lih-Ju Chen, Ping-Ju Chen, Shun-Fa Yang et al. · 2022 · Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

Background: Jaundice may be one of the first signs of urinary tract infection (UTI) in infants. The most common pathogen is Escherichia coli. Currently recommended antibiotic treatment for neonatal UTI is ampicillin and an aminoglycoside.…

View details →DOI: 10.1097/jcma.0000000000000698Cited by 4
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What’s the impact of voice-hearing experiences on the social relating of young people: A comparison between help-seeking young people who did and did not hear voices

Aikaterini Rammou, Clio Berry, David Fowler et al. · 2023 · PLOS ONE

Limited research has explored the specific impact of voice-hearing experiences upon the social relating of adolescents. This study examined the associations of voice-hearing in youth with social relating, and putative explanatory factors.…

View details →DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290641Cited by 4
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Early surgery within 48 hours of admission for hip fracture did not improve 1-year mortality in Japan: a single-institution cohort study

Hiroki Iida, Yasuhiko Takegami, Yoshihito Sakai et al. · 2024 · HIP International

Introduction: Early surgery for hip fracture, within 48 hours of hospital admission, is effective in reducing mortality. However, the average preoperative waiting time for hip fractures in Japan is 4.5 days and the 1-year mortality rate…

View details →DOI: 10.1177/11207000241248836Cited by 4
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Fourteen weeks of β-alanine supplementation and HIIT did not improve serum BDNF concentrations and Stroop test performance

Paloma Tavares Mendonça, Yago Medeiros Dutra, Barbara M. Antunes et al. · 2025 · International Journal of Sports Medicine

Abstract This study aimed to investigate whether 14 weeks of β-alanine supplementation and high-intensity intermittent training improves brain-derived neurotrophic factor concentrations and cognitive aspects related to executive functions…

View details →DOI: 10.1055/a-2500-5556Cited by 4
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Genomics and High-Resolution Typing Confirm Predominant Clonal Evolution Down to a Microevolutionary Scale in Trypanosoma cruzi

Michel Tibayrenc, Francisco J. Ayala · 2020 · Pathogens

Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease, is a paradigmatic case of the predominant clonal evolution (PCE) model, which states that the impact of genetic recombination in pathogens’ natural populations is not sufficient to suppress a…

View details →DOI: 10.3390/pathogens9050356Cited by 4
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The adoption of an electronic health record did not improve A1c values in Type 2 diabetes

Harry B Burke, Dorothy A Becher, Albert Hoang et al. · 2016 · Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics

Background: A major justification for the clinical adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) was the expectation that it would improve the quality of medical care. No longitudinal study has tested this assumption.Objective: We used…

View details →DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v23i1.144Cited by 4
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Union-Find Decoders For Homological Product Codes

Nicolas Delfosse, Matthew B. Hastings · 2021 · Quantum

Homological product codes are a class of codes that can have improved distance while retaining relatively low stabilizer weight. We show how to build union-find decoders for these codes, using a union-find decoder for one of the codes in…

View details →DOI: 10.22331/q-2021-03-10-406Cited by 4
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“Real‐world” performance of the Confirm Rx™ SharpSense AF detection algorithm: UK Confirm Rx study

Andre Briosa e Gala, Michael T. B. Pope, Milena Leo et al. · 2024 · Journal of Arrhythmia

Abstract Introduction The novel Confirm Rx™ implantable cardiac monitor (ICM) with SharpSense™ technology incorporates a new P‐wave discriminator designed to improve AF detection. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of…

View details →DOI: 10.1002/joa3.13124Cited by 4
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Redefined complement C3c structures have significant increase in the plasma of ovarian cancer patients

Dong-Hao Chen, Yi-Wen Chang, Chin-Hsiang Chien et al. · 2025 · Journal of the Chinese Medical Association

Background: Ovarian cancer (OC) is the third most common gynecological cancer. Effective biomarkers are required for OC as in the case of other cancers. Therefore, here we explored whether plasma proteolytic products could serve as…

View details →DOI: 10.1097/jcma.0000000000001249Cited by 4
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PENGEMBANGAN PENDEKATAN EVALUASI THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGE TECHNIQUE DALAM PEMBELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN JASMANI OLAHRAGA DAN KESEHATAN

Resty Gustiawati, Fahrudin Fahrudin, Febi Kurniawan et al. · 2019 · Multilateral Jurnal Pendidikan Jasmani dan Olahraga

Penelitian ini berjudul “Pengembangan Pendekatan Evaluasi The Most Significant Change Technique dalam Pembelajaran Pendidikan Jasmani Olahraga dan Kesehatan”. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk Mengembangkan Pendekatan Evaluasi The Most…

View details →DOI: 10.20527/multilateral.v18i2.7624Cited by 4
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Blind measurements did not confirm effects of forest fragmentation on fluctuating asymmetry of a tropical butterfly Morpho helenor

Mikhail V. Kozlov · 2024 · The Science of Nature

Abstract Re-evaluation of photographs of the tropical butterfly Morpho helenor from a previous study (Pignataro et al. 2023) revealed that its conclusion regarding increased wing fluctuating asymmetry in forest edge habitats compared to…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s00114-024-01913-9Cited by 4
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The Addition of the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index to the Prognostic Scoring Systems Did Not Improve Mortality Prediction in Trauma Patients in the Intensive Care Unit

Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Ching-Hua Tsai, Sheng-En Chou et al. · 2023 · Emergency Medicine International

Background. Malnutrition is prevalent among critically ill patients and has been associated with a poor prognosis. This study sought to determine whether the addition of a nutritional indicator to the various variables of prognostic…

View details →DOI: 10.1155/2023/3768646Cited by 4
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THINK AGAIN: DO INNOVATING FIRMS OUTPERFORM NON‐INNOVATORS?

Paul Geroski, Steve Machin · 2013 · Business Strategy Review

Innovation remains high on the corporate agenda. In this 1992 article, Paul Geroski and Steve Machin argue that innovating firms are both more profitable and grow faster than non‐innovators. But the major difference in performance turns…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8616.2013.00959.xCited by 4
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Ovarian damage following surgery for endometriomas, 20 years later: did awareness improve the situation?

Dalila Invernici, Gianfranco Fornelli, Marco Reschini et al. · 2025 · Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Abstract Background Early reports from the beginning of this century highlighted significant ovarian damage following laparoscopic stripping of endometriomas. During the last 2 decades, the raised awareness of the possible detrimental…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s00404-025-08039-xCited by 4
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Fold change based approach for identification of significant network markers in breast, lung and prostate cancer

Richa K. Makhijani, Shital A. Raut, Hemant J. Purohit · 2018 · IET Systems Biology

Cancer belongs to a class of highly aggressive diseases and a leading cause of death in the world. With more than 100 types of cancers, breast, lung and prostate cancer remain to be the most common types. To identify essential network…

View details →DOI: 10.1049/iet-syb.2018.0012Cited by 4
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An implementation of Bubble Magnification did not improve the video comprehension of individuals with central vision loss

Francisco M Costela, Stephanie M Reeves, Russell L Woods · 2021 · Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Abstract Purpose People with central vision loss (CVL) watch television, videos and movies, but often report difficulty and have reduced video comprehension. An approach to assist viewing videos is electronic magnification of the video…

View details →DOI: 10.1111/opo.12797Cited by 4
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“The least significant change on bone mineral density scan increased in patients with higher degrees of obesity”

Claire Dorilleau, Lukshe Kanagaratnam, Isabelle Charlot et al. · 2024 · Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Abstract Background : The least significant change (LSC) threshold of 0.03 g/cm² is used to interpret bone mineral density (BMD) scans in the general population. Our working hypothesis was that the current LSC threshold would not be…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s40520-024-02736-4Cited by 4