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

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.

A statistical comparison of various alternative hypotheses has shown that universal common ancestry is significantly more probable than models involving multiple origins.

It will also reduce pressure placed on the barrel in comparison to alternative technologies that offer the same muzzle energy given the fact that it helps spread the propellant's gas much more smoothly during ignition.

One question that arises here is how to determine a money value for each alternative to facilitate comparison and assess opportunity cost, which may be more or less difficult depending on the things we are trying to compare.

A graphical comparison between the North East Passage ( blue ) and an alternative route through Suez Canal ( red )

If, for example, the capital required for Project A can earn 5 % elsewhere, use this discount rate in the NPV calculation to allow a direct comparison to be made between Project A and the alternative.

However, it is rarely a sufficient alternative for manual kerning, as some characters may appear to an algorithmic comparison to be spaced very closely together, but to a human reader might appear to be spaced too far apart ; especially when the only part of a glyph that is ' too close ' is a diacritic sign.

Economic evaluation is the comparison of two or more alternative courses of action in terms of both their costs and consequences ( Drummond et al .).

( a ) In a comparison with a no-treatment control group, alternative treatment group, or sham ( placebo ) control using randomized assignment, the investigational treatment is shown to be statistically significantly superior to the control condition or the investigational treatment is equivalent to a treatment of established efficacy in a study with sufficient power to detect moderate differences.

Now the Seikan Tunnel provides a convenient but more expensive alternative and approximately halves the travel time in comparison to ferrying.

Although not a great number in comparison to the total number of the inhabitants of the capital, it almost certainly saved many lives of the people who probably would have had to find alternative, less secure means of protection.

Another alternative is comparison with authoritatively identified specimens in natural history museums or other relevant repositories.

This left any comparison between QD3D and alternative APIs one-sided, as outside of the Mac QD3D was forced to fall back to a software RAVE implementation.

The Fairness Model proposes an alternative measure of equity / inequity to the relational partner or " comparison person " of standard equity theory.

A graphical comparison between the North East Passage ( blue ) and an alternative route through Suez Canal ( red )

During this stage, concept studies are undertaken to define alternative concepts and to provide information about capability and risk that would permit an objective comparison of competing concepts.

The argument, as presented in the summaries, fail two basic tests of scientific credibility: a control group ( in this case, other minority ethnic groups ), and a comparison with alternative hypotheses ( such as Thomas Sowell's convincing analysis of " middlemen minorities " such as the Jews, presented in his magisterial study of migration, race, conquest, and culture ).

Workers ' co-operatives have often been seen as an alternative or " third way " to the domination of labour by either capital or the state ( see below for a comparison ).

For many applications, C with GLib is an alternative to C ++ with STL ( see GObject for a detailed comparison ).

For comparison, this diagram illustrates the alternative design with strong coupling between the dependent class and a provider:

The new label introduces the comparison of alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles with conventional internal combustion engine vehicles using miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent ( MPGe ) as a metric.

The common fuel economy metric adopted to allow the comparison of alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles with conventional internal combustion engine vehicles is miles per gallon of gasoline equivalent ( MPGe ).

In comparison to available treatment options, the cost effectiveness of MRgFUS in the U. S. and U. K. has been found to be reasonable and comparable to alternative treatments ( hysterectomy, pharmacotherapy, uterine artery embolization ).

When there is a lack of comparison with direct competition, a meaningful alternative could be a vertical value-chain approach where the subject company is compared with, for example, a known downstream industry to have a good feel of its value by building useful correlations with its downstream companies.

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