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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Pedro Perim, Nathan Gobbi, Breno Duarte et al. · 2021 · European Journal of Sport Science
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effect of beta‐alanine supplementation on short‐duration sprints and final 4‐km simulated uphill cycling time‐trial performance during a comprehensive and novel exercise protocol representative of the…
N. Vargas Jurado, A. E. Tanner, S. R. Blevins et al. · 2014 · Grass and Forage Science
Abstract Feed intake and diet choice affect production efficiency in livestock. Plant waxes, in particular n ‐alkanes, have been used as markers to predict intake and diet preferences. Still, when n ‐alkane profiles of plants within mixed…
Marian Schini, Richard Jacques, Eleanor Oakes et al. · 2021 · European Journal of Endocrinology
Introduction The least significant change (LSC) is a term used in individuals in order to evaluate whether one measurement has changed significantly from the previous one. It is widely used when assessing bone mineral density (BMD) scans.…
Remco van Egmond, Murray L Barclay, Paul KL Chin et al. · 2013 · Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine
Background Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) enzyme activity is measured before initiating thiopurine therapy to reduce the risk of severe drug-associated myelotoxicity in patients with low enzyme activity. TPMT activity may vary over…
Chengcheng Huang, Tadashi Suzuki · 2020 · FEBS Letters
N‐ Glycosylated substrates that undergo ER‐associated degradation (ERAD) are often deglycosylated by the cytosolic peptide: N ‐glycanase (Ngly1) during their proteasomal degradation in the cytosol. Consequently, the presence of non‐ or…
Vinnycius de Oliveira, Ricardo Viana, Naiane Morais et al. · 2021 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
This study compared the exergame beach volleyball’s acute effects on state anxiety level in single vs. multiplayer mode in adult men. Sixty adult men (age: 21.98 [4.58] years, body mass: 75.40 [15.70] kg, height: 1.77 [0.09] m, and body…
Jingwen Yang, Xue Wu, Kyoshiro Sasaki et al. · 2021 · PeerJ
When people are confronted with health proposals during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it has been suggested that fear of COVID-19 can serve protective functions and ensure public health compliance. However, health…
Rebecca Cutts, Steve Turner · 2013 · Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Abstract Background The principle aim of this study was to describe the variability of exhaled nitric oxide ( FE NO ) concentrations over 10 months in children with and without asthma. Methods FE NO was measured on six occasions at 2‐month…
Kim K. Johnson, Carole Bennett, Haresh Rochani · 2020 · Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
Objective: Patients with somatic symptom disorders (SSD) are prevalent in primary care, urgent care, and emergency rooms and present with reduced quality of life, increased disability, and suicidality . Criteria for SSD include (1) somatic…
Helen E Tilbrook, Taeko Becque, Hannah Buckley et al. · 2014 · Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Abstract Rationale Attrition is a threat to the validity of randomized trials. Few randomized studies have been conducted within randomized trials to test methods of reducing attrition. Aim To test whether using yellow post‐it notes on…
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…
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…
Matthew P. Steinberg, Rand Quinn, J. Cameron Anglum · 2020 · Journal of Education Finance
abstract: We estimate the impact of school finance reform on adequate and equitable district spending, school resources and student achievement in Pennsylvania. From the 2008-09 to the 2010-11 school years, amid the Great Recession,…
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…
Thomas Popp, Jonathan Mittaz · 2022 · Remote Sensing
The AVHRR aerosol optical depth (AOD) is inverted from measured reflectances in the red band using a statistical correlation of surface reflectance with mid-infrared channel reflectances and a modelling climatology of the aerosol type. For…
Fei Ke, Renbao Wang, Zihao Wang et al. · 2022 · Viruses
As nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses, replication of ranaviruses (genus Ranavirus, family Iridoviridae) involves a series of viral and host proteins. We have described that the replication and transcription machinery of Andrias…