A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

A 1998 systematic review of studies assessing its prevalence in 13 countries concluded that about 31 % of cancer patients use some form of complementary and alternative medicine .< ref name = Ernst_Cassileth > Alternative medicine varies from country to country.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

While they continued to play live shows during 1983 and 1984, they took a break from releasing new records to concentrate on the Alternative Tentacles record label, which would become synonymous with DIY alternative culture.

In the late 1990s, former band members discovered problems with the amount of payments which each band member had received from their record label Alternative Tentacles.

Biafra claims that guitarist East Bay Ray had long expressed displeasure with Alternative Tentacles and with the amount of money he received from them, thus the original incentive for the discovery of the back payments.

East Bay Ray claims he received a fax from Alternative Tentacles purporting Biafra approved the licensing for the game, which Biafra denies happening.

Marcuse defended the arrested East German dissident Rudolf Bahro ( author of Die Alternative: Zur Kritik des real existierenden Sozialismus The Alternative in Eastern Europe ), discussing in a 1979 essay Bahro's theories of " change from within ".

Alternative splicing is widely used to generate multiple proteins from a single gene.

Alternative splicing of introns within a gene acts to introduce greater variability of protein sequences translated from a single gene, allowing multiple related proteins to be generated from a single gene and a single precursor mRNA transcript.

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Alternative continuities in the Marvel multiverse are generally defined in terms of their differences from Earth-616.

Nostradamus has been credited, for the most part in hindsight ( see under ' Alternative views ' below ), with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, and the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

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Alternative Interpretations of Items from the Gulf of Cambay, The Hall of Ma ' at, by Paul V. Heinrich, May 2002.

Alternative theories about the origin of weathercocks on church steeples are that it was an emblem of the vigilance of the clergy calling the people to prayer, that it was derived from the Goths and is only possibly a Christian symbol, and that it is an emblem of the sun.

The Alternative Elfstedentocht races take part in other countries, such as Austria, Finland or Canada, and all top marathon skaters, as well as thousands of recreative skaters, travel from the Netherlands to the location where the race is held.

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Alternative rock acts from the 1980s and early 1990s indie scene were the direct ancestors of the Britpop movement.

As those nine MEPs did not entitle the Greens to form a parliamentary group on their own, they concluded an alliance with MEPs from Italy, Denmark, and regionalists from Flanders and Ireland to form the GRAEL ( Green Alternative European Link ) group, also known as the Rainbow group.

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Alternative views of the events have been proposed claiming mistranslations or comparing the sacrifice to other biblical events and given the contradiction in the moral message, seeking a more poetic interpretation.

Alternative names of the order include the Christ Knights, Sword Brethren, and The Militia of Christ of Livonia.

Alternative starting rulesets exist for Internet and mail games, wherein gameplay occurs in alphabetical order by surname, and points added to the score are based on the success of a proposed rule change rather than random dice rolls.

Alternative means of analysis have thus been devised in order to provide some insight into problems that do not fall under the scope of queueing theory, although they are often scenario-specific because they generally consist of computer simulations or analysis of experimental data.

Thus Real Alternative requires RealPlayer to be installed ( or at least its DLLs ) in order to function.

Alternative civil remedies include restitution or transfer of property, or an injunction to restrain or order certain actions.

Alternative namings and abbreviations for this order are used depending on the geographic region.

* the top eight leading brand names for the above were ( by order of sales ): Thomas ', Sara Lee, ( private label brands ) Pepperidge Farm, Thomas Mini Squares, Lender's Bagels ( Pinnacle Foods ), Weight Watchers and The Alternative Bagel ( Western Bagel ).

As in the Alternative Vote Instant-runoff voting system, candidates are ranked numerically in order of preference.

Alternative medicine treatments for bowel disease exist in various forms, however such methods concentrate on controlling underlying pathology in order to avoid prolonged steroidal exposure or surgical excisement.

Alternative is a 2-disc set, consisting of 30 B-sides in chronological order.

The first version of Multi Theft Auto, dubbed Grand Theft Auto III: Alternative Multiplayer, attempted to fill in this gap by extending an already existing cheating tool with functionality that allowed the game to be played with a very crude form of two-player racing over a computer network purely as a proof of concept, similar to how the now-defunct XBAND service worked by manipulating game memory in order to add online multiplayer functionality.

The Alternative Exchange is a stock exchange that was founded as a division of the JSE in order to accommodate small-and medium-sized high growth companies.

Alternative sources for larger-size, mass-produced sleepers include Internet auction sites, such as eBay, and certain mail order clothing retailers, such as Lands ' End.

Alternative transparent techniques include displaying all or part of the e-mail address on a webpage as an image, a text logo shrunken to normal size using inline CSS, or as text with the order of characters jumbled, placed into readable order at display time using CSS.

Alternative terms such as African Holocaust, Holocaust of Enslavement, Black holocaust are also in use, in order to evoke a parallel between injustices suffered by historically by Black people and the Nazi holocaust.

It is part of the wider Democratic Alternative ( AD ) movement, which in 2005 joined the Independent Democratic Pole ( PDI ) in order to create the Alternative Democratic Pole ( PDA ) alliance.

Alternative attempts have been made to identify her with Esther, although Esther is an orphan whose father was a Jew named Abihail.

Alternative solutions, however, have been very diverse.

New performance measures have been introduced that attempt to address some of theoretical concerns with traditional indicators, including: modified Sharpe ratios ; the Omega ratio introduced by Keating and Shadwick in 2002 ; Alternative Investments Risk Adjusted Performance ( AIRAP ) published by Sharma in 2004 ; and Kappa developed by Kaplan and Knowles in 2004.

Alternative mechanisms of action that have been proposed include the activation of glutamatergic circuits while inhibiting GABAergic neurotransmission.

Alternative tests have been and are being developed.

Alternative proposals for English regional government have stalled, following a poorly received referendum on devolved government for the North East of England, which had hitherto been considered the region most in favour of the idea, with the exception of Cornwall, where there is widespread support for a Cornish Assembly, including all five Cornish MPs.

Alternative MLIS schemes are currently being developed ( using a first laser in the near-infrared or visible region ) where an enrichment of over 95 % can be obtained in a single stage, but the methods have not ( yet ) reached industrial feasibility.

Alternative interpretations of Cubism have therefore developed.

Alternative names for the phylum have included Nemertini, Nemertinea and Rhynchocoela.

Alternative sweeteners such as xylitol and saccharin have many positive research results that show qualities of dental decay prevention.

Alternative methods, such as the dutch auction have also been explored.

* In 1994, communist and socialist dissidents created the Convention for a Progressive Alternative, a party with a eco-socialist platform, and they have 1 deputy, 8 mayors, and some councillors.

The NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine states that overall, studies have shown that spinal manipulation can provide mild to moderate relief from low-back pain and appears to be as effective as conventional medical treatments.

Alternative package management utilities like Paludis and pkgcore have seen heavy development.

The Silver Creek Alternative School provides a different avenue for students who have struggled in a typical school setting.

The Alternative School strives to educate students who may have difficulties in a normal classroom setting ( for example, those with disciplinary or other concerns ).

They also have an ALC ( Alternative Learning Center ) down at the old elementary.

Thomas J. Rubino Academy ( formerly Mercer County Alternative High School ) is one of Mercer County's only alternative schools, offering an alternative educational program for students who have struggled in the traditional school environment, featuring smaller classes, mentoring and counseling.

Alternative spellings in English have included lubrican, leprehaun, and lepreehawn.

Alternative rock / folk groups The Waifs, Little Birdy and Eskimo Joe all have connections with Fremantle, and belong to what has been dubbed the ' Freo Sound '.

The U. S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has issued an advisory indicating the marketing claims made about colloidal silver are scientifically unsupported, the silver content of marketed supplements varies widely, and colloidal silver products can have serious side effects to the consumer, including " argyria ,... neurologic problems ( such as seizures ), kidney damage, stomach distress, headaches, fatigue, and skin irritation.