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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Astrid Eriksen, Marita Melhus, Bjarne Koster Jacobsen et al. · 2021 · Socialmedicinsk tidskrift
The aim of the study was to compare the level of mental distress of Sami and non-Sami residents in rural Sami core areas with that of people who have moved from these areas to cities in Norway. Previous research on mental health among the…
Emily Moore, Wanda Gordon-Evans · 2022 · Veterinary Evidence
PICO question In dogs with acute gastroenteritis, is metronidazole faster, slower, or comparable in resolving clinical signs when compared to probiotic administration? Clinical bottom line Category of research question Treatment The number…
Mikkel Andreas Holm, Anders Gram‐Hanssen, Bennedikte Kollerup Madsen et al. · 2022 · Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
Abstract Background Preoperative anxiety is a common issue in surgery. Preoperative anxiety may lead to increased mortality, pain and dissatisfaction with surgery. Melatonin is a drug with only mild adverse effects and has previously been…
Sari Verachtert, Dieter Stiers, Marc Hooghe · 2025 · Politics of the Low Countries
Theories on issue competition assume that there is only a limited number of issues that a person prioritises simultaneously. In this research note, we test this mechanism by using a panel study that was conducted among Belgian parents in…
Brian Erly, Parker Jackson, Therese Pilonetti · 2023 · The Journal of School Nursing
During the 2020–2021 school year, many schools adopted remote learning or a part-time in-person learning (“hybrid”) approach to reduce the risk of in-school transmission of COVID-19. The purpose of this work is to describe case rates of…
Wayne Hall · 2013 · F1000Research
This article assesses the evidence for the hypothesis that a decline in all types of crime since the early 1990s in the USA was a consequence of removing lead from petrol between 1975 and 1985. It describes ecological and econometric…
Ezra La Roi · 2020 · Philologia Classica
This paper traces the semantic and constructional development of the complement-taking verb εὑρίσκω ‘find’ from Homeric Greek to Post-Classical Greek. First, the paper details the semantic development of εὑρίσκω using characteristics such…
Haggai Olshanetsky · 2021 · JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
In the past, it has been suggested that Jews were both participants and spectators in the gladiatorial games. Yet, all the materials presented to prove the existence of Jewish gladiators seem to be less conclusive than what the authors…
Andrey Shumakov · 2023 · Izvestia of Smolensk State University
This work is devoted to a very little-studied topic of the Virginia Slave Conspiracy led by Gabriel and is the first study of this issue in Russian historiography. The present article analyzes in detail the causes and prerequisites of the…
Max Harleman, Jeremy G. Weber · 2025 · Policy Studies Journal
ABSTRACT A core literature in the field of public policy seeks to understand whether decentralized collective action institutions will emerge to provide public goods. While some studies examine how they perform relative to public…
Nceba Hene, Paola Wood, Martin Schwellnus et al. · 2021 · Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Objective: To determine if repeat annual health risk assessments (RAHRAs) with intervention reduce 10-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in financial sector employees. Methods: Retrospective analysis from RAHRAs in 13,737 employees…
Noah Lorincz-Comi, Yihe Yang, Jayakrishnan Ajayakumar et al. · 2024 · Bioinformatics Advances
Abstract Motivation Nearly two decades of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identify thousands of disease-associated genetic variants, but very few genes with evidence of causality. Recent methodological advances demonstrate that…
George Hathaway, Lance L. Williams · 2021 · Physics
We report test results searching for an effect of electrostatic charge on weight. For conducting test objects of mass of order 1 kg, we found no effect on weight, for potentials ranging from 10 V to 200 kV, corresponding to charge states…
Mikala Narlock, Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon, Melissa Harden · 2022 · Evidence Based Library and Information Practice
Objective – The authors sought to identify link language that is user-friendly and sufficiently disambiguates between a digital collection and digital exhibit platform for users from a R1 institution, or a university with high research…
SAMIE AHMED SAYED · 2016 · Journal of Advances in Management Research
Purpose PE and DCF are two popular valuation methodologies used by analysts to derive target price forecasts while performing equity research. Recent studies in developed markets show that analysts using sophisticated models like DCF…
Harvey C Freetly, Amanda K Lindholm-Perry, Andrew P Foote et al. · 2020 · Journal of Animal Science
Abstract Methane represents an energetic loss, and it has been proposed that its reduction may be associated with improved feed efficiency. Rumen methanogens produce most of the methane. Forty-nine crossbred heifers were individually fed a…
Kaloyan Mitev, Lorraine Whitmarsh, Merideth Gattis et al. · 2025 · PLOS Climate
Young people’s daily routines are especially malleable during significant life events, offering opportunities for pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) change. We investigated how PEBs shifted during two Moments of Change (MoCs), an exogenous…
Jacob H Schmidt, Bianca Hutton Chimes · 2023 · Journal of Applied Finance & Banking
Abstract Why are there so few women in finance and even fewer managing funds? There is a major discrepancy between the number of female and male fund managers worldwide. The aim of this paper is to ascertain if gender is a contributing…
Kazi Rakib Uddin, Shahid Uz Zaman, Krishnakant B. Budhavant et al. · 2025 · International Journal of Climatology
ABSTRACT In South Asia, our understanding of atmospheric aerosols and their optical properties is limited, posing a challenge to comprehending climate change dynamics. This study characterises aerosol optical properties, radiative…
Carina Seron, Betarmos Jr. Vicente, Melbert Hungo et al. · 2024 · Journal of Research, Policy & Practice of Teachers & Teacher Education
This study aimed to explore transformative shifts resulting from teacher evaluations. Employing a descriptive-narrative research design, sixteen teachers in Bontoc I and II districts, Southern Leyte, Philippines were purposively sampled…
Nicola Arrighi, Alessandro Antonelli, Tiziano Zanotelli et al. · 2011 · Urologia Journal
Objectives During the last 3 decades ultrasonographic and cross-sectional imaging techniques have been widely adopted in the pre-operative staging of renal masses with a progressive technological refinement. The aim of this study is to…
Robin Thomas · 2023 · Global Business Review
This article examines the validity of the weak form of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) in the context of the Nifty stock market index by applying a support vector machine (SVM) model. The aim is to forecast future stock prices using…
A. G Kozintsev · 2023 · Etnograficheskoe obozrenie
To test Yuri Rychkov’s claim that the physical type of the Karasuk people was identical to that of the highlanders of Western Pamir, 24 male Karasuk cranial samples were subjected to a multivariate comparison with 59 samples representing…
Sanjay Chakraborty, Ibrahim Delibasoglu, Fredrik Heintz · 2026 · Artificial Intelligence Review
Abstract Large pre-trained models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across domains, but their comparative effectiveness in time series forecasting, especially against smaller, efficient models, remains underexplored. This work…
Veronika Savica, Liene Sile, Maris Taube · 2025 · Frontiers in Psychiatry
Dissociation is a complex and transdiagnostic phenomenon defined as a disruption of, or discontinuity in, the normal, subjective integration of one or more aspects of psychological functioning. Dissociation has been identified as one of…
M. R. Sarkandiz, S. Ghayekhloo · 2024 · Finance: Theory and Practice
The Central Bank of Turkey’s policy to decrease the nominal interest rate has caused episodes of severe fluctuations in Turkish lira exchange rates during 2022. According to these conditions, the daily return of the USD/TRY have attracted…
Jukka Tuhkuri · 2025 · Polar Record
Abstract Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance , was crushed by Antarctic sea ice and sank in November 1915. Since then, it has been widely considered that Endurance was the strongest polar ship of its time and was lost because ice tore…
Grace Damptey Manu, Michael Osei Aboagye, Seth Yeboah Ntim et al. · 2025 · International Journal of Educational Management
Purpose The implementation of school improvement initiatives – such as Ghana’s standards-based curriculum (SBC) – necessitates transformational and contextually responsive school leadership. In line with this, the recent primary school…
Matthias Brockmeyer, Sebastian Lott, Jonas Stroeder et al. · 2019 · Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics
Abstract Background The aim of this study was to develop two simple positioning devices for anteroposterior pelvis radiographs and to evaluate their effect on accuracy of the radiographs for assessment of the acetabular orientation…
Byeong-uk Yi · 2025 · Open Philosophy
Abstract Modern logicians hold that traditional logic makes a serious error by accepting the subalternation thesis , the thesis that universal affirmatives imply matching particular affirmatives. But some traditional logicians (e.g.,…