Outlandish claims

Arming the pregnancy police: more outlandish concoctions?

How Outlandish Can Imaginary Cases Be?

It is common in moral philosophy to test the validity of moral principles by proposing counter-examples in the form of cases where the application of the principle does not give the conclusion we intuitively find valid. These cases are often imaginary and sometimes rather ‘outlandish’, involving ray guns, non-existent creatures, etc. I discuss whether we can test moral principles with the help ...

The Claims Library Capability Maturity Model Evaluating a Claims Library

One of the problem that plagues Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) software is its development cost. Many software companies forego the usability engineering aspect of their projects due to the time required to design and test user interfaces. Unfortunately, there is no “silver bullet” for user interface design and implementation because they are inherently difficult tasks. As computers are movin...

Claims and Jurisdictions in Medical Matters Disputes

Medical claims are all disputes that are somehow related to the medical and related matters so its subject is wide-ranging. These are civil, criminal and diciplinair medical cases, and due to the multy natures of such cases, we are likely to see numerous authorities to them. Furthermore, here expert medical expertise and expert opinion play an important role, but the rules are somewhat conflict...

Swedish consumers' cognitive approaches to nutrition claims and health claims

INTRODUCTION AND AIM Studies show frequent use of nutrition claims and health claims in consumers' choice of food products. The aim of the present study was to investigate how consumers' thoughts about these claims and food products are affected by various types of food-related experiences. MATERIAL AND METHODS The data collection comprised 30 individual interviews among Swedish consumers age...