Advocates of voice-stress analysis contend that inaudible vibrations in the voice, known as microtremors, speed up when a person is lying.
The analysis contends that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was asked to serve as a shadow militia for Venezuela's intelligence apparatus, although there is no evidence that President Hugo Chávez was aware of the assassination requests or that they were ever carried out.
Family-owned Robinson Helicopter Co. disputed The Times' analysis, contending that the FAA undercounts the flight hours for the R44, leading to an inflated accident rate.
While regulators in the United States and abroad rely heavily on benefit-cost analysis, critics contend that hypothetical bias precludes one of the most popular benefit estimation techniques – contingent surveys – from providing reliable economic values for nonmarket goods and services.
Similarly, Lipnevich and Smith's analysis (2009) contended that receiving a tentative grade depressed students' performance.
In this paper, I contend that policy space analysis provides a useful framework for understanding why commitment to existing policies often fluctuates over time, and for mapping the room for manoeuvre that advocates of particular policies have for addressing policies that are being neglected.
A much bigger problem, the analysis contends, is the dwindling, for reasons that are not clear-cut, of a specific kind of arts fan: the "omnivore" who relishes a wide range of attractions and attends far more frequently than others, accounting for nearly 60% of arts admissions.
In his railroad analysis, Professor Fogel contended that wheat, corn, pork and beef — the four major agricultural goods — would have been shipped on existing water routes and by wagon had railroads not been available.
Other experts have challenged the validity of their analysis and contend that the preponderance of evidence is that mammography is lifesaving.
After having described some limitations of prospective use analysis, we contend that creativity tools may be used to assist the anticipation of future product use, by allowing designers to approach the variability of situations of future use in a structured manner rather than by "muddling through".
