Alternative history may refer to a number of subjects relating to history, the chronology and study of the past.

Alternative may refer to:

Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, is a broad term that may be used to refer to all forms of education outside of traditional education ( for all age groups and levels of education ).

Alternative education may also allow for independent learning and engaging class activities.

) Alternative may be offering a more expensive lubricant and promise return in lower wear, specific fuel consumption or longer drain intervals.

The National Institutes of Health's, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has funded a pilot study to determine whether a macrobiotic diet may prevent cancer.

Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods.

Alternative to employing a power valve, the carburetor may utilize a metering rod or step-up rod system to enrich the fuel mixture under high-demand conditions.

Alternative treatments under investigation include the inhibition of zonulin, an endogenous signalling protein linked to increased permeability of the bowel wall and hence increased presentation of gliadin to the immune system, and other modifiers of other well-understood steps in the pathogenesis of coeliac disease, such as the action of HLA-DQ2 or tissue transglutaminase and the MICA / NKG2D interaction that may be involved in the killing of enterocytes.

Alternative spelling of " Epeus " may also be encountered.

Alternative measurement bases to the historical cost measurement basis, which may be applied for some types of assets for which market values are readily available, require that the carrying value of an asset ( or liability ) be updated to the market price ( mark-to-market valuation ) or some other estimate of value that better approximates the real value.

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

Alternative sensory information may suddenly seem present, such as intense vibrations, noises and sight through closed eyelids.

Alternative and safer methods of self-harm that do not lead to permanent damage, for example the snapping of a rubber band on the wrist, may also help calm the urge to self-harm.

Alternative names that states adhering to an officially communist ideology may assign themselves is socialist state or socialist republic.

* Unexplained / Alternative history: Alternative theories of history ( among them the theories that outlaws such as Billy the Kid and Butch Cassidy did not die as history recorded, that the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov survived the 1918 regicide that killed her entire family, that the assassination of Louisiana senator Huey Long may have been an accident, that the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr was in fact a conspiracy, and that Kurt Cobain may have been murdered ).

Alternative models, for example, gravitational lensing, may account for a few observations of some blazars which are not consistent with the general properties.

Alternative materials may well bring about other types of allergy.

The expression ' There Is No Alternative ' ( TINA ), made famous by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, may be traced to its emphatic use by Spencer.

Alternative systems may be used in some countries, such as last-in-first-out ( LIFO ), gross profit method, retail method, or combinations of these.

" ( Alternative forms are: " All those in favor ..."; " All in favor ..."; or the wording formerly prescribed by Congress, " As many as are in favor ...") In the case of a resolution, the question may be put as follows: " The question is on the adoption of the following resolution: it.

* Alternative school, a school geared towards students whose needs cannot be met in a traditional school

Alternative and special-interest cinema can be found in the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar, in the Screen Cinema on d ' Olier Street and in the Lighthouse Cinema in Smithfield.

The West Berlin state branch of The Greens used to be called Alternative Liste, or precisely, Alternative Liste für Demokratie und Umweltschutz ( AL ; alternative list for democracy and environmental protection ).

Under the EU's Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive, offshore hedge funds using prime brokers as depositaries will be required to use EU-registered credit institutions before they can be sold in the EU.

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.

" In the 1995 book America's Alternative Religions, published by the State University of New York Press, Baker wrote: " Although they prefer to be called Unificationists, they are referred to in the media and popularly known as ' Moonies '.

Alternative ethical codes can also be found within the pagan movement.

Alternative systems can be used with floor plan instead of maps for indoor robots, combined with localization wireless hardware.

By doing this, Orange Alternative participants could not be arrested by the police for opposition to the regime without the authorities becoming a laughing stock.

Alternative β forms denoted β1i, β2i, and β5i can be expressed in hematopoietic cells in response to exposure to pro-inflammatory signals such as cytokines, in particular, interferon gamma.

Another solution to still be able to skate marathons on natural ice became the Alternative Elfstedentocht.

Alternative tabloids can be positioned as upmarket ( quality ) newspapers, to appeal to the better-educated, higher-income sector of the market ; as middle-market ( popular ); or as downmarket ( sensational ) newspapers, which emphasize sensational crime stories and celebrity gossip.

" It was originally envisioned to be an " Alternative to Ultima Online " and was mentioned in an article on the Slashdot news website, which became a major source of interested developers.

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 currency is often used, but in essence this term is deceitful in many cases, as many currencies are designed to be complementary, and not to concur with-or to substitute conventional currencies.

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

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.

The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) classifies CAM therapies into five categories or domains, including: alternative medical systems, or complete systems of therapy and practice ; mind-body interventions, or techniques designed to facilitate the mind's effect on bodily functions and symptoms ; biologically based systems including herbalism ; and manipulative and body-based methods such as chiropractic and massage therapy.

Concerns that the sale would have an adverse effect on the market proved unfounded and the exhibition itself won an AICA award for " Best Installation in an Alternative Space " for 2006.

Alternative routes of administration like suppository, intravenous, intramuscular, inhalational aerosol and sublingual avoid the first-pass effect because they allow drugs to be absorbed directly into the systemic circulation.

Alternative medicine proponents frequently cite heavy metals or pesticides as the source of toxification ; however, no evidence exists that detoxification approaches have a measurable effect on these or any other chemical levels.