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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Hibba Asif · 2025 · European Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
We present a case of an elderly male who came for below-knee amputation (BKA) due to complicated synovial sarcoma. The patient had history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) and had undergone multiple cycles of chemotherapy and…
· 2024 · Journal of Surgery Care
Mitra Clip is an interventional procedure used in mitral regurgitation patients who are surgically inoperable or are at high surgical risk. However, there is a failure rate associated with this procedure and in some instances no surgical…
William Vincent · 2026 · Analysis
Abstract The doctrine of divine simplicity says that God is not composed of parts (physical or metaphysical). Modal collapse arguments aim to show that the necessary co-existence of God and creation follows from the doctrine. As noted by…
Jian Li, Zhihong Jeff Xia, Hanlun Lei et al. · 2024 · arXiv
In some recent work, we provided a quantitative explanation for the number asymmetry of Jupiter Trojans by hypothesizing a free-floating planet (FFP) flyby into the Solar System. In support of that explanation, this paper examines the influence of the same FFP flyby on the Hilda asteroids, which orbit stably in the 3:2 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. The observed Hilda population exhibits two distinct resonant patterns: (1) a lack of Hildas with resonant amplitudes < 40 deg. at eccentricities < 0.1; (2) a nearly complete absence of Hildas with amplitudes < 20 deg., regardless of eccentrici
Volkan Davut Mengi · 2025 · EON
Training artificial intelligence applications by uploading visuals is a form of converting visual data into another. Subsequently, generating visuals by prompting with trained artificial intelligence is an operation of transforming…
Frederic Blum · 2026 · Linguistic Typology
Abstract The statistical over-representation of certain phonological features in the basic vocabulary of languages is often interpreted as reflecting potentially universal sound symbolic patterns. However, most of these cases have not been…
William A. Zammarrelli, Scott M. Petersen, Kimberly Hickey et al. · 2019 · Obstetrics & Gynecology
INTRODUCTION: The physiology of labor, specifically cervical dilation, likely depends on immunomodulation. Warts, Hypogammaglobulinemia, Infections, and Myelokathexis (WHIM) Syndrome, is a rare immunodeficiency syndrome with patients…
Lukas Röseler, Georg Felser, Jana Asberger et al. · 2024 · Meta-Psychology
Redden and Hoch (2009) found that variety in a set of items robustly decreased the perceived quantity of the sum of these items across multiple studies. For example, a set of multicolored M&M’s was estimated to contain fewer M&M’s than an…
Nikunj Arora, Markku Suomalainen, Matti Pouke et al. · 2022 · arXiv
We propose augmenting immersive telepresence by adding a virtual body, representing the user's own arm motions, as realized through a head-mounted display and a 360-degree camera. Previous research has shown the effectiveness of having a virtual body in simulated environments; however, research on whether seeing one's own virtual arms increases presence or preference for the user in an immersive telepresence setup is limited. We conducted a study where a host introduced a research lab while participants wore a head-mounted display which allowed them to be telepresent at the host's physical loc
Hanna Woloszyn, Benjamin Gagl · 2025 · arXiv
The role of large language models (LLMs) in education is increasing, yet little attention has been paid to whether LLM-generated text resembles child language. This study evaluates how LLMs replicate child-like language by comparing LLM-generated texts to a collection of German children's descriptions of picture stories. We generated two LLM-based corpora using the same picture stories and two prompt types: zero-shot and few-shot prompts specifying a general age from the children corpus. We conducted a comparative analysis across psycholinguistic text properties, including word frequency, lexi
Liudmila Zakharova, Hikmet Nural, James R Nimlos et al. · 2013 · Circulation Research
A pilot clinical study using autologous c-Kit+ cells showed improvement in cardiac functions in congestive heart failure (CHF), however, it is unclear if c-Kit+ cells isolated from CHF hearts are equally as potent as cells from controls.…
Joseph Bevelacqua · 2024 · Qeios
The linear non-threshold (LNT) hypothesis is based on the premise that the smallest amount of ionizing radiation produces a biological detriment. It implies that exposure to low-dose radiation be minimized. The LNT approach causes fear and…
Sebastian Wallkotter, Rebecca Stower, Arvid Kappas et al. · 2020 · arXiv
Mind perception in robots has been an understudied construct in human-robot interaction (HRI) compared to similar concepts such as anthropomorphism and the intentional stance. In a series of three experiments, we identify two factors that could potentially influence mind perception and moral concern in robots: how the robot is introduced (framing), and how the robot acts (social behaviour). In the first two online experiments, we show that both framing and behaviour independently influence participants' mind perception. However, when we combined both variables in the following real-world exper
Mark Levine · 2026 · Humanities and Social Sciences
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a subject of science fiction. It is being used in many fields to perform an infinite number of tasks. Some even use AI to create music. This paper examines the fundamental inability of artificial…
Katherine Kornei · 2023 · Eos
Data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have been instrumental in pinpointing where other Moon-bound spacecraft have crashed.
Yoav Zeevi, Sofi Astashenko, Liad Mudrik et al. · 2020 · arXiv
The field of psychological sciences has been grappling with the replicability crisis. Various issues have been identified as potential sources of this problem. We bring to light a potential source that has largely been overlooked and demonstrate its significant contribution to the problem: the practice of multiple comparisons. We analyzed 88 papers from the Reproducibility Project in Psychology and found that multiple results are commonly reported in a single paper, ranging from 4 to 730 (M=77.7), without multiple comparison adjustments. We retroactively applied such an adjustment using a hier
Cheikh Mbaye, Frédéric Vrins · 2019 · arXiv
We address the so-called calibration problem which consists of fitting in a tractable way a given model to a specified term structure like, e.g., yield or default probability curves. Time-homogeneous jump-diffusions like Vasicek or Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (possibly coupled with compounded Poisson jumps, JCIR), are tractable processes but have limited flexibility; they fail to replicate actual market curves. The deterministic shift extension of the latter (Hull-White or JCIR++) is a simple but yet efficient solution that is widely used by both academics and practitioners. However, the shift approach
Tariro Portia Tendengu, Fadzai Mahere · 2021 · International Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing Practice
The purpose of this paper is to reach the augment of COVID-19 effects on international economic relations. The globe has become a cohesive economic community with interdependence being fuelled by rising economies and the need to exchange…
Anika Jantzen, Miriam Opoku-Pare, Katharina Ruf et al. · 2014 · European Respiratory Journal
Introduction: Exercise and habitual physical activity are important components in the care of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Regular exercise and physical activity improve physical fitness, exercise tolerance, quality of life and…
Kaitlyn Rabach · 2025 · Roadsides
In Donegal County, Ireland over 30,000+ homes are crumbling due to the failure and neglect of a self-regulated construction industry without a comprehensive independent audit system or inspection system. Over a decade of delayed…
· 2025 · European Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
Pediatric nephrolithiasis is an increasing concern and often requires complete stone clearance due to high recurrence risk. Managing large renal stones (>2 cm), lower calyceal stones (>1 cm), and stones refractory to Extracorporeal Shock…
Zulma Janet Hernández-Paxtián · 2014 · RICS Revista Iberoamericana de las Ciencias de la Salud
La fascinación por replicar el funcionamiento del cuerpo humano, existe desde las primeras observaciones de Prometeo, Thévenot y Tremblay, es por ello, que el desarrollo de herramientas para tratar lesiones y enfermedades ha sido de los…
Wenyu Liu, D Stephen Coad · 2025 · Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Multi-armed multi-stage designs evaluate experimental treatments using a control arm at interim analyses. Incorporating response-adaptive randomisation in these designs allows early stopping, faster treatment selection and more patients to…
Francesca Miti, Angela Ciaramidaro, Sandro Rubichi et al. · 2025 · Psychological Research
Abstract Evidence indicates that faces are rapidly detected and prioritized in visual processing due to their social relevance. Crucially, research has shown that faces capture attention even when they are task-irrelevant, suggesting the…
· 2021 · The Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
With transcatheter aortic valve replacement being increasingly utilized in a younger and lower risk population, we can expect to see larger numbers of patients presenting with structural deterioration of aortic valves replaced by the…
Wangnen Lampa, Geyin Boli, Boa Reena Tok · 2024 · GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS
The present study focuses on nding out how senior secondary students of Tirap district, Arunachal Pradesh, India are performing in English and to nd out the signicant difference in the attitude and achievement levels of these students…
David Colaço, John Bickle, Bradley Walters · 2022 · Biology & Philosophy
Abstract Scientists often respond to failures to replicate by citing differences between the experimental components of an original study and those of its attempted replication. In this paper, we investigate these purported mismatch…
Ray Gonzalez, Josh McDermott · 2017 · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Pitch perception exhibits well-established dependencies on stimulus characteristics. In human listeners, pitch is predominantly determined by low-numbered harmonics that are believed to be resolved by the cochlea, but is also conveyed to a…
Laura Pissani, Mayank Jobanputra, Vera Demberg · 2026 · Frontiers in Language Sciences
Normed linguistic stimuli are fundamental in psycholinguistics because they capture lexical and semantic properties that influence comprehension. However, generating these norms at scale is challenging, often leading researchers to rely on…
Than V, Casal DI, Sica A · 2024 · Cureus
We present a case of a 59-year-old female who presented with progressively worsening altered mental status, seizures, and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Over the course of her emergency visit and admission to the hospital, laboratory tests…