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.

Alternative dates are possible.

Alternative access is possible from the north through Agnes Water.

Alternative splicing is thought to be possible due to two Polyadenylation sites, one appearing between the Cμ and Cδ, and the other 3 ' of Cδ ( polyadenylation in the latter site would cause Cμ to be spliced away along with the intron ).

Alternative possible reasons for the behavior include resisting wave action and increasing water flow through the siphons of the mussel.

However this policy has been criticized by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives who, in their 2010 Alternative Budget, said " the semblance of a property tax freeze is only made possible with less transparent tax increases to pick-up the slack of fiscal irresponsibility.

* Alternative cause possible: 2 points if no other cause, 1 point if there is a possible alternative cause, no points if there is a definite alternative cause.

Alternative trade " humanizes " the trade process-making the producer-consumer chain as short as possible so that consumers become aware of the culture, identity, and conditions in which producers live.

Alternative techniques are used wherever possible and all efforts are made to ensure any animals are treated humanely.

* 2012 – Alternative rock band The Flaming Lips set a new Guinness World Record for performing the most live shows in different cities over 24 hours.

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.

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.

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 ".

* Deutsche Alternative Charts, a listing of the most popular alternative albums and singles in Germany

It was the most added song on alternative radio and the second most added song on active rock in early March in the United States, debuting at No. 32 on Billboard's Alternative Singles Chart.

American new wave audiences were most familiar with " Let Me Go ", which received high rotation airplay on Alternative / New Wave format radio stations, such as Los Angeles, California's KROQ-FM, and Long Island, New York's WLIR, plus frequent MTV exposure.

Alternative over-water vehicles such as wave-piercing catamarans ( marketed as the SeaCat in the UK until 2005 ) use less fuel and can perform most of the hovercraft's marine tasks.

Alternative Tentacles went on to launch some of the most original bands of the alternative / punk scene including releasing records ( which were later released by other labels ) by bands including The Dicks, 7 Seconds, and the Butthole Surfers.

Orange Alternative have been described as the most " influential of the solidarity factions ", central to enabling the overall movement to prevail ; due in part to the success their comedic " happenings " enjoyed in attracting the attention of the world's media.

Alternative, which had supported the station for most of its history to that point, was relegated to weekends and late night programming.

Bad Religion has released fifteen studio albums to date and is considered one of the most successful independent punk acts, selling over 5 million albums worldwide, and charting two singles on the Mainstream Rock charts and seven singles in the Top 40 of the Alternative Songs charts.

Special attention has been given to the Water Hole, the frequency of one of neutral hydrogen's absorption lines, due to the low background noise at this frequency and its symbolic association with the basis for what is likely to be the most common system of biochemistry ( see Alternative biochemistry ).

The band is credited in major national press as " South Africa's most successful Gothic Rock act and one of the top bands in the far broader Alternative scene " and headlined major national festivals throughout South Africa, including the country's largest music festival Woodstock, in addition to Oppikoppi and RAMfest.

Of the tumors that have not activated TERT, most have found a separate pathway to maintain telomere length termed ALT ( Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres ).

This is commonly referred to as ' What-if ' or ' Alternative ' modeling, and the most common theme is ' Luftwaffe 1946 ' or ' Luftwaffe ' 46 '.

Two of the most notable of these are Rock / Alternative / Post-Grunge band Matchbox Twenty, who originate from Orlando, and rock band Creed, who hail from Tallahassee.

Rolling Stone labeled Meshuggah as " one of the ten most important hard and heavy bands ", and the Alternative Press named it the " most important band in metal.

In 1999, All Things Must Pass appeared at number 9 on The Guardians " Alternative Top 100 Albums " list, where the editor stated that the album was the " best, mellowest and most sophisticated " of The Beatles ' solo efforts.

Alternative Press hailed The Haunted as one of metal's 25 most important bands.

It is the band's third most successful single, peaking at # 7 on the Alternative Songs Chart and # 14 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Chart.

Ben Elton, who then became The Store's next MC also became co-writer of BBC2's TV hit The Young Ones-as author William Cook noted, " After The Young Ones made him Alternative Comedy's hidden voice, Saturday Live ( Channel 4 ) made him its most visible face.

One of the most popular Alternative Metal bands in the United States is System of a Down, formed by Daron Malakian, Serj Tankian, Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan, all of them of Armenian descent.