Alternative medicine methods are diverse in their foundations and methodologies.

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.

Alternative algebras are so named because they are precisely the algebras for which the associator is alternating.

Alternative names are " local train " or " stopping train ".

Alternative tickets are available for entrance into the Princes Street Gardens concert and Céilidh, where well-known artists perform and ticket holders are invited to participate in traditional Scottish céilidh dancing.

Alternative presentations are common including BuOAc and CH < sub > 3 </ sub > COOC < sub > 4 </ sub > H < sub > 9 </ sub >.

Alternative names for ' hard ' and ' soft ' euroscepticism are respectively ' withdrawalist ' and ' reformist ' euroscepticism.

Alternative start codons ( depending on the organism ), include " GUG " or " UUG "; these codons normally represent valine and leucine, respectively, but, as a start codon, they are translated as methionine or formylmethionine.

Alternative measures of kurtosis are: the L-kurtosis, which is a scaled version of the fourth L-moment ; measures based on 4 population or sample quantiles.

Alternative media are also " mass media " outlets in the sense of using technology capable of reaching many people, even if the audience is often smaller than the mainstream.

Alternative views on this topic are given by famous British-Australian physicist John Ward and laser physicist Frank Duarte.

Debbie Stothard of the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma stated that mining operators used drugs on employees to improve productivity, with needles shared, raising the risk of HIV infection: " These rubies are red with the blood of young people.

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

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 possible solutions for problems in the phonology, orthography, grammar and vocabulary are considered.

The beginning of the Orange Alternative are in a student movement called the Movement for New Culture created in 1980 at the University of Wrocław.

Alternative crops, however, are not economically comparable to coca.

Alternative positions are traducianism and creationism, which both hold that the individual human soul does not come into existence until conception.

Alternative output devices are tape perforators and computer storage media.

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.

Alternative phrases for this are tisane or herbal infusion, both bearing an implied contrast with " tea " as it is construed here.

Alternative tests have been and are being developed.

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.

Besides explaining the process of desertification, the model is also useful for developing methods to combat it ( see also: Alternative stable state ).

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 dispute resolution, also known as Family dispute resolution

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

Orange Alternative movement has inspired several other similar movements in authoritarian countries including Czechoslovakia and Hungary and it has also inspired and influenced the Pora and the so called Orange Revolution movement in Ukraine, which was in turn supported by Poland.

The album debuted at No. 3 on US Billboard 200, No. 1 on the Top Modern Rock / Alternative Albums Chart, No. 1 on the Top Digital Albums Chart, and also No. 1 on the Top Internet Albums Chart, with first week sales of 91, 800 units.

The Jenkins Commission report in October 1998 suggested implementing the Alternative Vote Top-up ( also called Alternative Vote Plus or AV +) in parliamentary elections.

Alternative views are also presented here.

In 1994, she received the Right Livelihood Award ( also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize ), "... For her commitment to justice, non-violence and understanding of minorities as well as her love and caring for nature.

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.

Alternative schemes were also available where " H " and " L " or " 0 " and " 1 " were also available to represent data bits, but in both of these encoding schemes, the two data-bearing ASCII characters differ in only one bit position, providing very poor single punch error detection.

Alternative remote file access protocols include the Server Message Block ( SMB, also known as CIFS ), Apple Filing Protocol ( AFP ), NetWare Core Protocol ( NCP ), and OS / 400 File Server file system ( QFileSvr. 400 ).

In 2007 the PDS merged with the Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative ( Arbeit und soziale Gerechtigkeit – Die Wahlalternative, WASG ) to create the new party The Left ( Die Linke ), which has resulted in a higher acceptance in western states, the party now also being represented in the parliaments of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saarland, Hesse and Hamburg.

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

He also has been part of the anarchist organization Alternative Libertaire.

Alternative names for teachers were also used-De Havilland Dominie, Percival Provost, Miles Magister, Percival Proctor.

Kelly received the Right Livelihood Award ( also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize ) in 1982 "... for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice, and human rights.

The Right Livelihood Award, also referred to as the " Alternative Nobel Prize ", is a prestigious international award to honour those " working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today ".