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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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The effect of 0.5 mL mepivacaine administered as an abaxial sesamoid nerve block on lameness of horses with digital pain did not differ significantly from that of 2.5 mL of mepivacaine

Robert C. Cole, Fred J. DeGraves, Jessica Brown et al. · 2025 · American Journal of Veterinary Research

Abstract Objective To compare the effect of 2.5 mL 2% mepivacaine to the effect of 0.5 mL 2% mepivacaine administered over each palmar digital nerve, as an abaxial sesamoid nerve block (ASNB), to 6 horses lame because of naturally…

View details →DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.25.02.0042
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Pain and Patient‐Reported Physical Function Did Not Differ Among Body Composition Profiles in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis

Alexandra Ryan, Boliang Wang, Fiona Dobson et al. · 2026 · Arthritis Care & Research

Objective To explore whether higher body fat and lower lean mass are associated with greater pain and worse patient‐reported physical function in individuals with hip osteoarthritis (OA). A secondary aim was to examine whether pain and…

View details →DOI: 10.1002/acr.80058
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Improvement in Long‐term Household Food Security among Indiana Households with Children did not Differ between Rural and Urban Counties after a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program‐Education Intervention

Rebecca L Rivera, Melissa K Maulding, Angela R Abbott et al. · 2016 · The FASEB Journal

Objective To determine the relationship of rural and urban county household status to long‐term food security among households with children in Indiana after a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program‐Education (SNAP‐Ed) intervention.…

View details →DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.30.1_supplement.674.26
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Clinical Outcomes of Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Did Not Significantly Differ according to Tumor Size in an Iodine-Excessive Country

Da Eun Leem, Ji Hyun Yoo, Bo Ram Kim et al. · 2025 · Endocrinology and Metabolism

Background: Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) measuring <2 cm is generally associated with good prognosis, while tumor size ≥4 cm is regarded as being associated with a poor prognosis. This study aimed to evaluate FTC prognosis by tumor…

View details →DOI: 10.3803/enm.2025.2324
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Toxicity assessment of green energy by-product, lithium, using a novel suite of eight Australian aquatic-species tests from a Global Biodiversity Hotspot.

Nice, Storer, Fisher et al. · 2026 · Environmental toxicology and chemistry

Due to recent advances in green energy initiatives in response to climate change impacts, lithium exploration and production are rapidly increasing, with concomitant elevated lithium in discharges to waterways. However, lithium toxicity to…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/etojnl/vgag063
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Where Did All the Suspended Sediment Go?

Bruce S. Hart · 2026 · The Sedimentary Record

Studies of mud transportation and deposition in modern shelf settings indicate that fine-grained siliciclastic sediment is deposited from suspension in various ways. However, contemporary interpretations of ancient analogs (e.g., epeiric…

View details →DOI: 10.2110/001c.161170
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What Did They Say? What Did They Mean? Interpreting US Policies through Presidents’ Discourses at Historical Landmarks in Europe: A Study of Democracy Attributes

Ahmet Keser, Zeynep Elçin Kamalak · 2024 · Journal of Humanity and Society (insan &amp; toplum)

This study investigates how US Presidents addressed the attributes of democracy in their speeches at critical European sites and historical breakpoints. The aim is to analyze the content of the speeches and determine whether there is a…

View details →DOI: 10.12658/m0734
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Did Zhuangzi Criticize Mengzi?

Kim-chong Chong · 2024 · Dao

Abstract Mengzi 孟子 and Zhuangzi 莊子 lived around the same time in the mid–Warring States period of ancient China. The historical relation between them is unclear. There is no mention of each other in the texts named after them. But some…

View details →DOI: 10.1007/s11712-024-09975-2
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Did Jesus Teach Absolute Pacifism?

Carlo Filice · 2024 · The Acorn

Against the background of widespread use and justification of violence in Christian history, this paper reviews the text of the Christian Gospels to see if the words or deeds of Jesus or his followers indicate whether Jesus taught absolute…

View details →DOI: 10.5840/acorn202531835
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Did the Ways Part? New Models in Judean/Christian Relations

Michael Kok · 2017 · Axis Mundi

&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; In this paper I reconsider the evidence for the traditional “Parting of the Ways” model, which posits an official separation of Judaism and Christianity between 70 and 135 CE. I argue that neither Rabbinic Judaism nor…

View details →DOI: 10.29173/axismundi78
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Did Early German Romanticism Impact Systems Theory?

Patrick Fortmann · 2015 · Journal of Literary Theory

Abstract The writings of Niklas Luhmann, the towering architect of modern systems theory, abound with references to the literature of early German Romanticism. Starting from this observation, the article investigates the relevance of…

View details →DOI: 10.1515/jlt-2015-0014
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School participation in a health behavior program: qualitative perspectives from schools that did and did not adopt the iAmHealthy program

Bethany Forseth, Jordan Carlson, Brittany Lancaster et al. · 2025 · Translational Behavioral Medicine

Abstract Background Childhood overweight/obesity in rural areas is a public health concern. Schools provide access to youth/families for health behavior programming but have adoption challenges. Purpose To explore school adoption of a…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/tbm/ibaf036
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Did Walgreens and Rite Aid benefit from their 2017 deal

Khamis M. Bilbeisi, C.R. Narayanaswamy · 2022 · Pressacademia

Purpose- After several attempts that extended over two years, in 2017 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved Walgreens’ proposal to buy nearly half of Rite Aid stores. The two companies were in the same line of business making the…

View details →DOI: 10.17261/pressacademia.2022.1646
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Dreamers and Starters: How Did Ecosystems Evolve in XXIst Century Portugal?

C. Fernando Gaspar · 2021 · Scientific Research Journal of Review of Public Administration and Management

This research looks at the birth and evolution of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (EEs) in Portugal, comparing all the internal administrative regions. One the analysis led to a major distinction being drawn between dreamers (companies created…

View details →DOI: 10.47310/srjrpam.2021.v01i01.008
Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics

Friction and the oscillatory motion of granular flows

Lydie Staron · 2012 · arXiv

This contribution reports on numerical simulations of 2D granular flows on erodible beds. The broad aim is to investigate whether simple flows of model granular matter exhibits spontaneous oscillatory motion in generic flow conditions, and in this case, whether the frictional properties of the contacts between grains may affect the existence or the characteristics of this oscillatory motion. The analysis of different series of simulations show that the flow develops an oscillatory motion with a well-defined frequency which increases like the inverse of the velocity's square root. We show that

Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Significant effects of second KK particles on LKP dark matter physics

Mitsuru Kakizaki, Shigeki Matsumoto, Yoshio Sato et al. · 2005 · arXiv

We point out that Kaluza-Klein (KK) dark matter physics is drastically affected by second KK particles. In this work various interesting phenomena caused by the second KK modes are discussed. In particular, we reevaluate the annihilation cross section and thermal relic density of the KK dark matter quantitatively in universal extra dimensions, in which all the standard model particles propagate. In these models, the first KK mode of $B$ boson is a viable dark matter candidate by virtue of KK-parity. We demonstrate that the KK dark matter annihilation cross section can be enhanced, compared wit

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Non universal gaugino phases and the LSP relic density

Shaaban Khalil · 1999 · arXiv

The cosmological relic density of the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) of type I string derived model is calculated. This model can accommodate large values of CP violating phases, and the electron and neutron electric dipole moments satisfy the experimental constraint. We show that the constraint from the electric dipole moment on the ratio between the gaugino masses implies that the mass of the LSP, which is bino like, is close to the lightest chargino. The co-annihilation between them is very important to reduce the LSP relic density to an interesting region. We show that the SUSY pha

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Designing Trustworthy User Interfaces for the Voluntary Carbon Market: A Randomized Online Experiment

Klaudia Guzij, Michael Fröhlich, Florian Fincke et al. · 2022 · arXiv

The voluntary carbon market is an important building block in the fight against climate change. However, it is not trivial for consumers to verify whether carbon offset projects deliver what they promise. While technical solutions for measuring their impact are emerging, there is a lack of understanding of how to translate this data into interface designs that mediate the establishment of trust. With interaction between users and offset projects mainly happening online, it is critical to meet this design challenge. To this end, we designed and evaluated interfaces with varying trust cues for c

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Photoelectron Polarization Vortexes in Strong-Field Ionization

Pei-Lun He, Zhao-Han Zhang, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan et al. · 2024 · arXiv

The spin polarization of photoelectrons induced by an intense linearly polarized laser field is investigated using numerical solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in companion with our analytic treatment via the spin-resolved strong-field approximation and classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulations. We demonstrate that, even though the total polarization vanishes upon averaging over the photoelectron momentum, momentum-resolved spin polarization is significant, typically exhibiting a vortex structure relative to the laser polarization axis. The polarization arises from the tra

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What Makes An Apology More Effective? Exploring Anthropomorphism, Individual Differences, And Emotion In Human-Automation Trust Repair

Peggy Pei-Ying Lu, Makoto Konishi, Shin Sano et al. · 2022 · arXiv

Recent advances in technology have allowed an automation system to recognize its errors and repair trust more actively than ever. While previous research has called for further studies of different human factors and design features, their effect on human-automation trust repair scenarios remains unknown, especially concerning emotions. This paper seeks to fill such gaps by investigating the impact of anthropomorphism, users' individual differences, and emotional responses on human-automation trust repair. Our experiment manipulated various types of trust violations and apology messages with di

Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

Effects of Cognitive Distraction and Driving Environment Complexity on Adaptive Cruise Control Use and Its Impact on Driving Performance: A Simulator Study

Anaïs Halin, Marc Van Droogenbroeck, Christel Devue · 2025 · arXiv

In this simulator study, we adopt a human-centered approach to explore whether and how drivers' cognitive state and driving environment complexity influence reliance on driving automation features. Besides, we examine whether such reliance affects driving performance. Participants operated a vehicle equipped with adaptive cruise control (ACC) in a simulator across six predefined driving scenarios varying in traffic conditions while either performing a cognitively demanding task (i.e., responding to mental calculations) or not. Throughout the experiment, participants had to respect speed limits

Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessComputer Science

On the Impact of Requirements Smells in Prompts: The Case of Automated Traceability

Andreas Vogelsang, Alexander Korn, Giovanna Broccia et al. · 2025 · arXiv

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate software artifacts, such as source code, tests, and trace links. Requirements play a central role in shaping the input prompts that guide LLMs, as they are often used as part of the prompts to synthesize the artifacts. However, the impact of requirements formulation on LLM performance remains unclear. In this paper, we investigate the role of requirements smells-indicators of potential issues like ambiguity and inconsistency-when used in prompts for LLMs. We conducted experiments using two LLMs focusing on automated trace link gene

Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPhysics

Probing the isotropy of cosmic acceleration using different supernova samples

Z. Q. Sun, F. Y. Wang · 2018 · arXiv

Recent studies have indicated that an anisotropic cosmic expansion may exist. In this paper, we use three datasets of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) to probe the isotropy of cosmic acceleration. For the Union2.1 dataset, the direction and magnitude of the dipole are $(l=309.3^{\circ} {}^{+ 15.5^{\circ}}_{-15.7^{\circ}} ,\ b = -8.9^{\circ} {}^{ + 11.2^{\circ}}_{-9.8^{\circ}} ),\ A=(1.46 \pm 0.56) \times 10^{-3}$. For the Constitution dataset, the results are $(l=67.0^{\circ}{}^{+ 66.5^{\circ}}_{-66.2^{\circ}},\ b=-0.6^{\circ}{}^{+ 25.2^{\circ}}_{-26.3^{\circ}}),\ A=(4.4 \pm 5.0) \times 10^{-4}$. F

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Spatial Dynamics of Synchronized Ants: A Mobile Oscillator Model Analysis

José F. Fontanari, Paulo R. A. Campos · 2025 · arXiv

Synchronized short-term activity cycles are a prominent feature in the nests of certain ant species, but their functional significance remains controversial. This study investigates whether synchronization enhances spatial accessibility within ant nests, a factor critical for efficient task performance and colony fitness. We use the mobile oscillator model, a computational framework that simulates ant movement and synchronous activity, to examine the effect of synchronization on the spatial distribution of inactive ants, which act as obstacles to the movement of active ants. Our analysis revea

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Visual Matters: Connecting Aesthetic Appeal and Production Quality of Photos, Infographics and Data Visualizations to Credibility of Social Media Posts

Salman Khawar, Yingdan Lu, Yilang Peng et al. · 2026 · arXiv

The rapid proliferation of visual content raises fundamental questions about how different visual formats and features shape perceived credibility. Drawing on processing fluency theory, this research examines how visuals shape credibility judgments. We focus on three popular formats-photos, infographics, and data visualizations-comparing them to text-only posts, and test how two visual features, aesthetic appeal and production quality, influence credibility through processing fluency as a mediating mechanism. Through a preregistered experiment with 1200 US participants, we found that visual po

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A first-principles investigation of band inversion in topologically nontrivial Na2AgX (X= As, Sb and Bi) full Heusler compounds

A. Boughena, S. Benalia, O. Cheref et al. · 2021 · arXiv

Topological nontrivial nature are the latest phases to be discovered in condensed matter physics with insulating bulk band gaps and topologically protected metallic surface states; they are one of the current hot topics because of their unique properties and potential applications. In this paper, we have highlighted a first-principles study of the structural stability and electronic behavior of the Na${}_{2}$AgX (X= As, Sb and Bi) full Heusler compounds, using the Full-Potential Linear Muffin-Tin Orbital (FP-LMTO) method. We have originated that the Hg${}_{2}$CuTi structure is appropriate in a

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A Quasi-Experiment comparing the health of unhoused people who have and have not experienced an eviction in King County, WA

Ihsan Kahveci, Timothy A. Thomas, Nathalie E. Williams et al. · 2026 · arXiv

Home eviction poses a significant threat to housing stability, a critical determinant of health. This study examines the relationship between eviction and health and substance use within the unhoused population of King County, Washington. Using a sample of 1,106 individuals experiencing homelessness, we employed a quasi-experimental design to compare the health outcomes of those who have experienced eviction with those who have not. Our findings reveal eviction is associated with an 8.3% point increase (SE = 0.039) in the likelihood of reporting poor general health and an 9.5% increase (SE = 0