It is one that most try to avoid, as long as they can see an alternative approach to the problem.

An alternative approach to the comparison of Buddhist thought with Western philosophy is to use the concept of the Middle Way in Buddhism as a critical tool for the assessment of Western philosophies.

In 1971 Shirley McNaughton started a pioneer program at the Ontario Crippled Children ’ s Centre ( OCCC ), aimed to children with cerebral palsy, from the approach of augmentative and alternative communication ( AAC ).

Calvinism ( also called Reformed tradition, or the Reformed faith, and sometimes Reformed theology ) is a type of Protestant theological system and an alternative approach to the Christian life.

An alternative term, expressing an ideological ( sometimes religious ) approach aimed at distancing oneself from the source of the count, is למניינם ( according to their count ).

See also parsing expression grammar as an alternative approach to grammar and parser.

An alternative approach, which preceded the ERM, is using the Relational model and dependencies ( mathematical relationships ) among data to normalize the database, i. e., to define the (" optimal ") relations ( data record or tupple types ) in the database.

Propensity probability is an alternative physicalist approach.

Limited disclosure, is an alternative approach where full details of the vulnerability are provided to a restricted community of developers and vendors while the public is only informed of a potential security issue.

With a table of appropriate size, this method is likely to be much faster than any alternative approach ( such as sorting the file and comparing all consecutive pairs ).

Literate programming is an approach to programming introduced by Donald Knuth as an alternative to the structured programming paradigm of the 1970s.

An alternative, humanistic approach poses the question " What is the meaning of my life?

also abandoned the genre in favor of a radio friendly alternative rock approach.

An alternative approach defines a polytope as a set of points that admits a simplicial decomposition.

An alternative approach to formalising probability, favoured by some Bayesians, is given by Cox's theorem.

A typical philosophical text presents a philosophical problem, summarizes and critiques various alternative approaches to solving it, presents its own approach, and then argues in favour of that approach.

Although the practicality of this approach to gene therapy has yet to be proven, some aspects of it could be less problematic than the alternative viral-based delivery of therapeutic genes.

Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda and Cesare Garofalo used an agent-based modelling approach to simulate the promotion of employees and tested alternative strategies.

An alternative approach was developed in 1929 by Friedrich Hund and Robert S. Mulliken, in which electrons are described by mathematical functions delocalized over an entire molecule.

With the approach of the early ' 90s and Rush's characteristic sound still intact, the band transformed their style once again to harmonize with the alternative rock movement.

The OpenRT project includes a highly optimized software core for ray tracing along with an OpenGL-like API in order to offer an alternative to the current rasterisation based approach for interactive 3D graphics.

The second Sigal responsum called for a takkanah, or rabbinical edict, " that would serve as a halakhic ERA ," overruling all non-egalitarian provisions in law or, in the alternative, a new approach to halakhic interpretation independent of legal precedents.

An alternative approach is to explore the ultranarrow optical transitions of atoms held in an optical lattice.

Within a given approach, statistical theory gives ways of comparing statistical procedures ; it can find a best possible procedure within a given context for given statistical problems, or can provide guidance on the choice between alternative procedures.

With the emergence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus MRSA, these traditional antibiotics may be ineffective ; alternative antibiotics effective against community-acquired MRSA often include clindamycin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and doxycycline.

Brown rice is often offered as an optional alternative to white rice.

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

Although a phoneme's allophones are all alternative pronunciations for a phoneme, the specific allophone selected in a given situation is often predictable.

It was commonly thought that most individuals were homozygous for the " wild type " allele at most gene loci, and that any alternative ' mutant ' allele was found in homozygous form in a small minority of " affected " individuals, often as genetic diseases, and more frequently in heterozygous form in " carriers " for the mutant allele.

In his mature work, when he did refer to science it was often to present phenomenological or Goethean science as an alternative to what he considered the materialistic science of his contemporaries.

Also, it is often erroneously cited that total plate appearances is the divisor ( i. e., denominator ) used in calculating on base percentage ( OBP ), an alternative measurement of a player's offensive performance ; in reality, the OBP denominator does not include certain PAs, such as times reached via either catcher ’ s interference or fielder ’ s obstruction.

Zoologists often label behaviors, including bipedalism, as " facultative " ( i. e. optional ) or " obligate " ( the animal has no reasonable alternative ).

The alternative terminology rotor or rotational and alternative notations rot F and ∇ × F are often used ( the former especially in many European countries, the latter, using the del operator and the cross product, is more used in other countries ) for curl and curl F.

In the 1970s, medial capitals became an alternative ( and often standard ) identifier naming convention for several programming languages.

Low bandwidth animations transmitted via the internet ( e. g. 2D Flash, X3D ) often use software on the end-users computer to render in real time as an alternative to streaming or pre-loaded high bandwidth animations.

In Europe, in connection with the 2010 census round, a large number of countries adopted alternative census methodologies, often based on the combination of data from registers, surveys and other sources.

Recently it has been explored as a more rigorous alternative to laptop musicians who, live coders often feel, lack the charisma and pizzazz of musicians performing live.

* The idealized descriptions of 5 -, 7 -, 8 -, and 9-coordination are often indistinct geometrically from alternative structures with slightly different L-M-L ( ligand-metal-ligand ) angles.

An alternative ranking system often used in the American Mid-West proceeds as B level, A level, AA level, Honor level, and Evans Scholar.

Their often discordant pop songs feature unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures that have proven influential on subsequent popular music, particularly New Wave, industrial and alternative rock artists.

These alternatives, which include charter schools, alternative schools, independent schools, homeschooling and autodidacticism vary widely, but often emphasize the value of small class size, close relationships between students and teachers, and a sense of community.

An alternative to filtration is centrifugation — instead of filtering the mixture of solid and liquid particles, the mixture is centrifuged to force the ( usually ) denser solid to the bottom, where it often forms a firm cake.

Many alternative, often contradictory, theories have been proposed regarding the pyramid's construction techniques.

Hypoglycemia ( common usage ) is also a term in popular culture and alternative medicine for a common, often self-diagnosed, condition characterized by shakiness and altered mood and thinking, but without measured low glucose or risk of severe harm.

One reason for such actions is that often the alternative to hyperinflation is either depression or military defeat.

* Biblical Hebrew often expresses a pronoun direct object by appending a pronominal suffix directly to the verb, as an alternative to appending it to the preposition that signals a definite direct object.

Standard intelligence tests, such as the Stanford-Binet, are often inappropriate for children with autism ; the alternative of using developmental or adaptive skills measures are relatively poor measures of intelligence in autistic children, and may have resulted in incorrect claims that a majority of children with autism are mentally retarded.

For example, a CD-ROM may contain an alternative file system descriptor in this area, as it is often used by Hybrid CDs to offer Mac OS-specific content.