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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…