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.

" Indymedia was founded as an alternative to government and corporate media, and seeks to facilitate people being able to publish their media as directly as possible.

The first IMC node, attached as it was to the Seattle anti-corporate globalization protests, was seen by activists as an alternative news source to that of the corporate media, which they accused of only showing violence and confrontation, and portraying all protesters negatively.

News sources, collectively, described as alternative media provide reporting which emphasizes a self-defined " non-corporate view " as a contrast to the points of view expressed in corporate media and government-generated news releases.

If trying to decide between alternative investments in order to maximize the value of the firm, the corporate reinvestment rate would probably be a better choice.

Ryan Moore has argued that in the wake of the appropriation of alternative rock by the corporate music industry that what became known as indie rock increasingly turned to the past to produce forms of " retro " rock that drew on garage rock, rockabilly, blues, country and swing.

As a result, Burger King provided the Australian franchisee, Jack Cowin, with a list of possible alternative names derived from pre-existing trademarks already registered by Burger King and its then corporate parent Pillsbury, that could be used to name the Australian restaurants.

The late 1990s also saw an emergence of underground music producing alternative Turkish rock, electronica, hip-hop, rap and dance music in opposition to the mainstream corporate pop and arabesque genres, which many believe have become too commercial.

Guerrilla gardeners claim to seek an alternative to dependence and participation in what they perceive as an exploitative and ecologically destructive system of global, industrialized corporate food production.

In the 2003 edition of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn wrote about alternative media, community newspapers and the creation of street newspapers trying the break the corporate control of information.

Local food systems are an alternative to the global corporate models where producers and consumers are separated through a chain of processors / manufacturers, shippers and retailers.

An alternative medium Pressian reported Oh's comments, " I respect Samsung as major business partner ," and introduced about 20 percent of the total advertising and cooperation revenue of Ohmynews is coming from Samsung for years, the biggest business corporate of Korea .< ref >

Which in practice meant that it administered the UK's large scale facilities for materials and biomolecular research, laser and space science and alternative energy exploration on behalf of the government, the other UK research funding bodies, universities, and corporate research and development.

The current understanding of alternative culture came about in the early 1990s, when strands of youth culture, counter culture, and various subcultures came together prompted by corporate influences.

The FairTax is a tax reform proposal for the federal government of the United States that would replace all federal income taxes ( including the alternative minimum tax, corporate income taxes, and capital gains taxes ), payroll taxes ( including Social Security and Medicare taxes ), gift taxes, and estate taxes with a single broad national consumption tax on retail sales.

The Fair Tax Act is designed to replace all federal income taxes ( including the alternative minimum tax, corporate income taxes, and capital gains taxes ), payroll taxes ( including Social Security and Medicare taxes ), gift taxes, and estate taxes with a national retail sales tax on new goods and services.

Other common alternative models of work included self-or co-operative employment, as with masters in artisan guilds, who often had salaried assistants, or corporate work and ownership, as with medieval universities and monasteries.

It's the alternative to the bling-bling, tie-in-with-a-designer corporate hip-hop thing.

The campus later housed a senior center, corporate dormitories, a public swimming pool, and an alternative high school program known as West Center Academy.

They released one album, 1998's Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too, an alternative album heavily influenced by the rock and soul of the 1970s, containing — among radio-friendly modern rock tracks and love songs — strong criticism of corporate America.

The Act also increased the tax rates for the alternative minimum tax ( AMT ), while increasing the corporate tax rate to 35 %.

The alternative press consists of printed publications that provide a different or dissident viewpoint than that provided by major mainstream and corporate newspapers, magazines, and other print media.

As in the 16th century, the Counter-Reformation repressed any alternative theological current or radical social movement, and the Peace of Augsburg sanctioned the partition of the continent among Catholic and Protestant powers, so the last twenty years of the 20th century were marked by a vengeful rebirth of conservative ideologies, and the International Monetary Fund-driven corporate globalization of the economy seemed to rout any resistance.

Dual power is a concept that has taken on a broad meaning in the hands of anarchists and libertarian socialists who use it to refer to the concept of gradual revolution through the creation of alternative institutions and counter institutions in place of and in opposition to state and corporate power.

As a result, Burger King provided the Australian franchisee, Jack Cowin, with a list of possible alternative names derived from pre-existing trademarks already registered by Burger King and its then corporate parent Pillsbury that could be used to name the Australian restaurants.