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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Zhichuan Li · 2016 · Investment Analysts Journal
The endogeneity problem has always been one, if not the only, obstacle to understanding the true relationship between different aspects of empirical corporate finance. Variables are typically endogenous, instruments are scarce, and…
Thomas Bell · 2010 · The ISME Journal
Community similarity declines with increasing geographic distance if species tend to be locally adapted or if they are dispersal limited. The distance-decay of similarity has been shown for bacteria previously, but distinguishing between…
Matteo Tamburini, Ф. Пегораро, A. Di Piazza et al. · 2010 · New Journal of Physics
Radiation reaction (RR) effects on the acceleration of a thin plasma foil by a superintense laser pulse in the radiation pressure dominated regime are investigated theoretically. A simple suitable approximation of the Landau-Lifshitz equation for the RR force and a novel leapfrog pusher for its inclusion in particle-in-cell simulations are provided. Simulations for both linear and circular polarization of the laser pulse are performed and compared. It is found that at intensities exceeding $10^{23} \Wcm$ the radiation reaction force strongly affects the dynamics for a linearly polarized laser
Davey L. Jones, Emily C. Cooledge, Frances C. Hoyle et al. · 2019 · Soil Biology and Biochemistry
The microbial partitioning of organic carbon (C) into either anabolic (i.e. growth) or catabolic (i.e. respiration) metabolic pathways represents a key process regulating the amount of added C that is retained in soil. The factors regulating C use efficiency (CUE) in agricultural soils, however, remain poorly understood. The aim of this study was to investigate substrate CUE from a wide range of soils (n = 970) and geographical area (200,000 km2) to determine which soil properties most influenced C retention within the microbial community. Using a 14C-labeling approach, we showed that the aver
Aloke Ghosh, Antonio Marra, Doocheol Moon · 2010 · Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
Abstract: Primarily motivated by the claims that the recent regulatory initiatives empowering boards and audit committees restrain earnings management, we examine whether board characteristics (composition, size, and structure) and audit…
ED DEHAAN, Joshua Madsen, Joseph D. Piotroski · 2016 · Journal of Accounting Research
We investigate whether unpleasant environmental conditions affect stock market participants’ responses to information events. We draw from psychology research to develop a new prediction that weather-induced negative moods reduce market…
Mary Amiti, Oleg Itskhoki, Jozef Konings · 2019 · The Review of Economic Studies
Abstract How strong are strategic complementarities in price setting across firms? In this article, we provide a direct empirical estimate of firms’ price responses to changes in competitor prices. We develop a general theoretical…
Brian Jacob, Jens Ludwig · 2012 · American Economic Review
This study estimates the effects of means-tested housing programs on labor supply using data from a randomized housing voucher wait-list lottery in Chicago. Economic theory is ambiguous about the expected sign of any labor supply response.…
Giorgio V. Scagliotti, Joachim von Pawel, Silvia Novello et al. · 2015 · Journal of Clinical Oncology
PURPOSE: Tivantinib, a MET receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor, demonstrated increased anticancer activity in preclinical and early clinical studies when combined with erlotinib. Our study aimed to confirm efficacy and safety of the…
Ning Zhang, Yongrok Choi · 2013 · The Social Science Journal
This paper proposes two environmental energy efficiency indices, the pure energy efficiency and scale efficiency based on the slacks-based measure of efficiency in data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA). These two indices are used to measure…
US Preventive Services Task Force, Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo, David C. Grossman et al. · 2017 · JAMA
IMPORTANCE: Preeclampsia affects approximately 4% of pregnancies in the United States. It is the second leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide and may lead to serious maternal complications, including stroke, eclampsia, and organ…
Katherine Baicker, Amy Finkelstein, Jae Song et al. · 2014 · American Economic Review
In 2008, a group of uninsured low-income adults in Oregon was selected by lottery for the chance to apply for Medicaid. Using this randomized design and 2009 administrative data, we find no significant effect of Medicaid on employment or…
Holly P. O’Rourke, David P. MacKinnon · 2018 · Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
OBJECTIVE: Mediation models are used in prevention and intervention research to assess the mechanisms by which interventions influence outcomes. However, researchers may not investigate mediators in the absence of intervention effects on…
Marco Scutari, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan · 2013 · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
OBJECTIVE: Modelling the associations from high-throughput experimental molecular data has provided unprecedented insights into biological pathways and signalling mechanisms. Graphical models and networks have especially proven to be useful abstractions in this regard. Ad hoc thresholds are often used in conjunction with structure learning algorithms to determine significant associations. The present study overcomes this limitation by proposing a statistically motivated approach for identifying significant associations in a network. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A new method that identifies significa
Matthias Konrad, Meghan L. Vyleta, Fabian J. Theis et al. · 2012 · PLoS Biology
Due to the omnipresent risk of epidemics, insect societies have evolved sophisticated disease defences at the individual and colony level. An intriguing yet little understood phenomenon is that social contact to pathogen-exposed individuals reduces susceptibility of previously naive nestmates to this pathogen. We tested whether such social immunisation in Lasius ants against the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae is based on active upregulation of the immune system of nestmates following contact to an infectious individual or passive protection via transfer of immune effectors amon
Corita R. Grudzen, Lynne D. Richardson, Pauline N. Johnson et al. · 2016 · JAMA Oncology
IMPORTANCE: The delivery of palliative care is not standard of care within most emergency departments (EDs). OBJECTIVE: To compare quality of life, depression, health care utilization, and survival in ED patients with advanced cancer…
Nicole Tausch, Miles Hewstone, Jared B. Kenworthy et al. · 2010 · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Although intergroup contact is one of the most prominent interventions to reduce prejudice, the generalization of contact effects is still a contentious issue. This research further examined the rarely studied secondary transfer effect…
Shitao Rao, Alexandria Lau, Hon‐Cheong So · 2020 · Diabetes Care
OBJECTIVE COVID-19 has become a major public health problem. There is good evidence that ACE2 is a receptor for SARS-CoV-2, and high expression of ACE2 may increase susceptibility to infection. We aimed to explore risk factors affecting…
Margie E. Lachman, Stefan Agrigoroaei, Patricia A. Tun et al. · 2013 · Assessment
Assessment of cognitive functioning is an important component of telephone surveys of health. Previous cognitive telephone batteries have been limited in scope with a primary focus on dementia screening. The Brief Test of Adult Cognition…
Louise C. Hawkley, Susanne Buecker, Till Kaiser et al. · 2020 · International Journal of Behavioral Development
Prior research in non-U.S. samples has found a complex nonlinear relationship between loneliness and age. This research has shown that established predictors of loneliness - poor health, being unmarried, living alone, and having infrequent…
Simone Blasi, Vedran Brdar, Kai Schmitz · 2021 · Physical Review Letters
The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves has recently reported strong evidence for a stochastic common-spectrum process affecting the pulsar timing residuals in its 12.5-year data set. We demonstrate that this process admits an interpretation in terms of a stochastic gravitational-wave background emitted by a cosmic-string network in the early Universe. We study stable Nambu-Goto strings in dependence of their tension Gμ and loop size α and show that the entire viable parameter space will be probed by an array of future experiments.
Patrick D. McGorry, Barnaby Nelson, Connie Markulev et al. · 2016 · JAMA Psychiatry
IMPORTANCE: A promising treatment to prevent onset and improve outcomes in patients at ultrahigh risk for psychosis is dietary supplementation with long-chain ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). OBJECTIVE: To determine whether…
S.P. Syswerda, Andrew Corbin, D. L. Mokma et al. · 2010 · Soil Science Society of America Journal
Soil C sequestration research has historically focused on the top 0 to 30 cm of the soil profile, ignoring deeper portions that might also respond to management. In this study we sampled soils along a 10‐treatment management intensity…
Daniel Schneider, Orestes P Hastings, Joe LaBriola · 2018 · American Sociological Review
Historic increases in income inequality have coincided with widening class divides in parental investments of money and time in children. These widening class gaps are significant because parental investment is one pathway by which advantage is transmitted across generations. Using over three decades of micro-data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the American Heritage Time Use Survey linked to state-year measures of income inequality, we test the relationship between income inequality and class gaps in parental investment. We find robust evidence of wider class gaps in parental financi
Simon Haines, John Gleeson, Peter Kuppens et al. · 2016 · Psychological Science
The ability to regulate emotions is central to well-being, but healthy emotion regulation may not merely be about using the "right" strategies. According to the strategy-situation-fit hypothesis, emotion-regulation strategies are conducive…
Victor Couture, Benjamin Faber, Yizhen Gu et al. · 2021 · American Economic Review Insights
This paper estimates the impact of the first nationwide e-commerce expansion program on rural households. To do so, we combine a randomized control trial with new survey and administrative microdata. In contrast to existing case studies,…
Rose E. O’Dea, Malgorzata Lagisz, Michael D. Jennions et al. · 2018 · Nature Communications
Fewer women than men pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), despite girls outperforming boys at school in the relevant subjects. According to the 'variability hypothesis', this over-representation of males is driven by gender differences in variance; greater male variability leads to greater numbers of men who exceed the performance threshold. Here, we use recent meta-analytic advances to compare gender differences in academic grades from over 1.6 million students. In line with previous studies we find strong evidence for lower variation among girls than boy
Carole Clair, Nancy A. Rigotti, Bianca Porneala et al. · 2013 · JAMA
IMPORTANCE: Smoking cessation reduces the risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but weight gain that follows quitting smoking may weaken the CVD benefit of quitting. OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that weight gain following smoking…
Maryam Alsadat Hashemipour, Mehrnaz Tahmasbi, Farnaz Fahimi Hanzaei · 2012 · Medicina oral, patología oral y cirugía bucal
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to evaluate the position of impacted third molars based on the classifications of Pell & Gregory and Winter in a sample of Iranian patients. STUDY DESIGN: In this retrospective study, up to 1020…
Nicola Raimo, Filippo Vitolla, Arcangelo Marrone et al. · 2020 · Business Strategy and the Environment
Abstract The limits of financial disclosure in meeting the investors' needs have led to the request for reporting frameworks capable of incorporating information of different nature. Integrated reporting (IR), which is the latest novelty…