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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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Treatment Outcomes of Different Prognostic Groups of Patients on Cancer and Leukemia Group B Trial 39801: Induction Chemotherapy Followed by Chemoradiotherapy Compared with Chemoradiotherapy Alone for Unresectable Stage III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Akerley, Wallace, Vokes, Everett E., Cicchetti, M Giulia et al. · 2009

BackgroundIn Cancer and Leukemia Group B 39801, we evaluated whether induction chemotherapy before concurrent chemoradiotherapy would result in improved survival and demonstrated no significant benefit from the addition of induction…

View details →DOI: 10.1097/jto.0b013e3181b27b33
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The MINERVA study design and rationale: A controlled randomized trial to assess the clinical benefit of minimizing ventricular pacing in pacemaker patients with atrial tachyarrhythmias

Manolis AS, Padeletti L., Mont L et al. · 2008

Dual-chamber (DDD) pacing has generally been regarded as "physiologic pacing" and therefore expected to be superior to ventricular pacing. Major randomized trials have so far failed to demonstrate significant reductions in the incidences…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2008.05.004
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Transient Crossed Aphasia: A Case Study with SPECT

José M. Ferro, Guilhermina Cantinho, Élia Baeta · 1991

A 45-year-old right-handed man developed “crossed” anomie aphasia, neglect and inaccurate reaching of his left arm in both hemispaces due to a right parietal haemorrhage. Aphasia cleared in a few days. SPECT failed to demonstrate crossed…

View details →DOI: 10.3233/ben-1991-4203
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A pilot, double blind randomised controlled trial of prednisolone for women with recurrent miscarriage and raised uterine natural killer cell density [Abstract]

Dawood, Feroza, Farquharson, Roy G., Turner, M. A. et al. · 2011

Introduction: Multiple trials of immunotherapy for reproductive failure have failed to demonstrate significant benefit. A reason for this may be the lack of a test that selects which women will benefit from treatment. High density of…

View details →DOI: 10.1093/humrep/26.s1.34
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Good laboratory practice: preventing introduction of bias at the bench

Macleod, Malcolm R.; id_orcid, Donnan, Geoffrey A., Traystman, RJ et al. · 2009

Background and Purpose—As a research community, we have failed to demonstrate that drugs which show substantial efficacy in animal models of cerebral ischemia can also improve outcome in human stroke. Summary of Review—Accumulating…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2008.101
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Feasibility of progesterone treatment for ischaemic stroke

Claire L. Gibson (6162488), Philip M. Bath (3111867) · 2015

Two multi-centre phase III clinical trials examining the protective potential of progesterone following traumatic brain injury have recently failed to demonstrate any improvement in outcome. Thus, it is timely to consider how this impacts…

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Intra Vascular Ultra Sound: One More Tool to Diagnose Aorto-duodenal Fistula

Maternini, M., Von Segesser, L.K., Tozzi, P. et al. · 2006

The incidence of aorto-enteric fistula in the first 5 years after abdominal aortic replacement ranges from 0.3 to 2%. We present a clinical case in which all conventional diagnostic tools failed to demonstrate the aorto-enteric fistula. A…

View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2006.05.011
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Influence of Job Familiarity on Job Evaluation Ratings

Kaupins, Gundars · 1990

The effect of job familiarity on job evaluation ratings was investigated. Data came from a survey of 222 personnel specialists and middle to upper level managers. The results failed to show significant associations between various measures…

View details →DOI: 10.19030/jabr.v6i3.6293
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On the Actual EPR Detection of Thioacyl Radicals

Maurizio Guerra (1268337), Angelo Alberti (2426320), Serge Masson (2426323) et al. · 2016

The direct EPR detection of thioacyl radicals has been reported only once, while thioacyl nitroxides remain an elusive species. We failed to detect the thioacyl radicals from two thioaldehydes and from phosphoryldithioformates but have…

View details →DOI: 10.1021/ol801219g.s002