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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Guthrie Miller, John Klumpp, Deepesh Poudel · 2020 · Radiation Protection Dosimetry
Abstract Based on $n$ replicate measurements that require known normalization factors and assuming an underlying normal distribution for individual measurements but with unknown standard deviation, a combined likelihood function is derived…
Laura Mieth, Raoul Bell, Axel Buchner · 2019 · Experimental Psychology
Abstract. This registered report aims at replicating the so-called “mnemonic time-travel” effect. Aksentijevic, Brandt, Tsakanikos, and Thorpe (2019) reported that memory was improved when their participants experienced backward motion…
SMR Gillani, MR Holland, M Sidhu et al. · 2014 · Practical Diabetes
Abstract Failure of access to structured diabetes care is associated with adverse outcome. There is no known validated data tool to identify access failure and thus we have developed a Failed Access Score (FAS) and have examined its…
Ke Xiao, Rongxin Zhang, Jing Tu · 2025 · International Journal of Molecular Sciences
G-quadruplex (G4) ChIP-Seq data are critical for studying the roles of G4 structures in various biological processes, yet their reproducibility remains systematically uncharacterized. In this study, we evaluated the consistency of in vivo…
Jean-Marie Marandin · 2011 · Belgian Journal of Linguistics
This paper addresses epistemological issues raised by the use of elicited data in linguistic analyses. A common suspicion raised by experimental settings is this: participants in the lab do not replicate their everyday use of language, due…
Keishi Nomura, Yuko Yotsumoto · 2018 · Japanese Psychological Research
Abstract Kobayashi and Ichikawa (2016) recently reported that briefly presented images with dangerous impressions were detected with higher accuracy than images with safe impressions and concluded that the emotion evoked by such images…
Bradley “Peanut” McCoy · 2022 · The Physics Teacher
There is a challenge as an instructor to balance the tension between flexibility and accountability in assignment due dates. I have long used an extension policy in my classes out of a desire to give students some flexibility on due dates.…
Harry Herr · 2021 · International Journal of Urologic History
Objectives Radical cystectomy is a complex surgery for bladder cancer which has undergone progressive changes for a century. The originators of the procedure required pioneering innovation and their biographies place the challenges of…
Jasmina T. Jovanovic · 2021 · Current Bioinformatics
Background: The analysis of DNA nucleotide sequence similarity among different species is crucial in identifying their functional, structural or evolutionary relationships. The number of bioinformatics tools designed to perform the…
Hadeel Alkutubi, Rania Abod, Omaima Jabber · 2022 · Journal of Kufa for Mathematics and Computer

 
 
 In this research, we applied actual data related to the number of infections with the Corona virus for some Arab countries for the month of February of the year 2022, where the method of least significant difference…
Yuksel Aliyazicioglu, Emin Ozbek, Levent Ozcan et al. · 2013 · Archivio Italiano di Urologia e Andrologia
Varicocele is the most common and surgically correctible cause of male infertility in men attending to infertility clinics. Infertility affects 15% of all couples and male factor is the primary or contributing cause in 40% to 60% of cases.…
Carl Skröder, Laila Hellkvist, Ulla Westin et al. · 2025 · Clinical and Translational Allergy
Abstract Background Seasonal allergic rhinitis (AR) impacts public health by affecting work productivity and quality of life. The Swedish tree pollen season starts in February with alder and hazel pollination, followed by birch and ends…
Yasmina Bouzidi, Emmanuel Barteau, Julien Lejeune et al. · 2019 · The Neuroradiology Journal
Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with a gadolinium injection is currently used in the follow-up of children in remission of cerebral tumors (CTs). Intracerebral gadolinium deposition has been recently reported with unknown…
Cody I. Riffe, Justin A. Heinz, Carly A. Patterson et al. · 2025 · Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
Abstract Objective Describe outcomes for dogs with aspiration pneumonia (AP) initially treated with ampicillin-sulbactam (AS) alone (monotherapy [MT]), initially with AS and enrofloxacin (initial dual therapy [iDT]), or initially with AS…
SK Lakshmana Moorthy, S Rajaram, PC Santhosh Kumar · 2020 · IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Abstract Quenching and Tempering of AISI 3140 alloy steel is a necessary heat treatment process to attain desired hardness and toughness. However the tempering process consumes remarkable amount of energy in furnace. One of the usual…
V Degerli, O Karcioglu, GL Larkin et al. · 2012 · Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine
Objectives To determine the minimum clinically significant difference (MCSD) in visual analog scale (VAS) pain scores for acute non‐traumatic thoracoabdominal pain (TAP) in the emergency department (ED) and to determine its association…
Irene Edith Rieuwpassa, Nurlindah Hamrun, Fitrian Riksavianti · 2013 · Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science
Every tribe and race has size of tooth mesiodistal and cervicoincisal different from each other. The most obviousdifference is the size of the teeth between female and male. This study aimed to determine differences in size ofmesiodistal…
Sashmi Prabha Sethi, Chhabi Satpathy, Trinath Kumar Mishra · 2025 · Indian Journal of Cardiovascular Disease in Women
Objectives: The objective of the study is to estimate the coronary sinus flow in patients of ST segment elevation myocardial infarction with significant stenosis of coronary arteries, using transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is our…
David Chapman, Magnus Ramage · 2021 · Information
The concept of information is foundational to many disciplines yet also problematic and contested. This article contributes to the understanding of information through discussion of the findings of the interdisciplinary Difference That…
Jun Young Choi, Young Yi, Seung Myung Choi et al. · 2026 · Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
Background Hallux valgus is a common forefoot deformity that alters forefoot loading and often leads to secondary complications such as intractable plantar keratosis beneath the second metatarsal head. Although the link between hallux…
Junchao Zhang, Gang Wang, Junjie Chen et al. · 2012 · Advances in Difference Equations
Abstract In this paper, we consider the q -difference analogue of the Clunie theorem. We obtain there is no zero-order entire solution of f n ( z ) + ( ∇ q f ( z ) ) n = 1 when n ≥ 2 ; there is no zero-order transcendental entire solution…
Neslihan Kaya Terzi, Tolga Terzi · 2024 · Annals of Saudi Medicine
BACKGROUND: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a standard preoperative diagnostic modality for thyroid nodules. The Bethesda Thyroid Cytopathology Reporting System (TBSRTC) defines the FNAC atypia group as atypia of undetermined…
Min-Feng Chen, Ning Cui · 2021 · Advances in Difference Equations
Abstract Let f be an entire function of finite order, let $n\geq 1$ n ≥ 1 , $m\geq 1$ m ≥ 1 , $L(z,f)\not \equiv 0$ L ( z , f ) ≢ 0 be a linear difference polynomial of f with small meromorphic coefficients, and $P_{d}(z,f)\not \equiv 0$ P…
Ivana Samarzija, Martina Šeruga Music · 2019 · Phytopathogenic Mollicutes
The genus ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma’ encompasses diverse groups of endocellular bacteria without cell wall that reside within plant phloem and insect cells. They are classified to the class Mollicutes together with acholeplasmas,…
Shawn N. Cummings, Brooke Duda, Rachel M. Theodore · 2025 · Autism Research
ABSTRACT Listeners accommodate rampant variability in speech input, at least in part, by adapting to structured phonetic variation. However, most work demonstrating this type of perceptual learning has focused on group‐level effects in…
Marian Eide · 2013 · Novel
James Joyce's Ulysses is punctuated by bad jokes. While the novel is itself comedic, the scripted rhetoric of humor throughout the narrative fails, revealing fractures in an Irish community divided by shared colonial experience. Good jokes…
Gemma Massetti, Carlotta Lega, Zaira Cattaneo et al. · 2022 · Brain Sciences
Humans are the only species capable of experiencing pleasure from esthetic stimuli, such as art and music. Neuroimaging evidence suggests that the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) plays a critical role in esthetic judgments,…
Keri Caudle, null null, null null et al. · 2016 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Dahlia mosaic virus (DMV) is a double-stranded DNA viral pathogen. A newly discovered strain of this virus called DMV-D10 was first observed in Dahlia variabilis. DMV-D10 does not induce visible symptoms of infection in the host plant, and…
Ben Groebner, Jason D. Clark, Jeffrey D. Svedin et al. · 2024 · Agronomy Journal
Abstract Including soil health and physical measurements with traditional soil fertility measurements has the potential to improve corn ( Zea mays L.) P fertilizer recommendations. The objectives for this study were to (1) evaluate the…
Andreas Plate, Stefania Di Gangi, Christian Garzoni et al. · 2024 · Scientific Reports
Abstract Patient information leaflets can reduce antibiotic prescription rates by improving knowledge and encouraging shared decision making (SDM) in patients with respiratory tract infections (RTI). The effect of these interventions in…