Anthropology has been used in Britain to provide an alternative explanation for the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010 to the technical explanations rooted in economic and political theory.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

American philosopher Michael Martin argues that it is not necessarily true that objective moral truths must entail the existence of God, suggesting that there could be alternative explanations: he argues that naturalism may be an acceptable explanation and, even if a supernatural explanation is necessary, it does not have to be God ( polytheism is a viable alternative ).

An alternative explanation is that the moving arms have precession torque on them which set the body into twisting rotation.

An alternative explanation is that the term entered France via Spain, the, maqabir ( cemetery ) being the root of the word.

However an alternative explanation is that Jude quotes the Book of Enoch aware that verses 14-15 are in fact an expansion of the words of Moses from Deuteronomy 33: 2.

Mingroni has proposed heterosis ( hybrid vigor associated with historical reductions of the levels of inbreeding ) as an alternative explanation of the Flynn effect as it pertains to increases of g.

In 20th century an alternative explanation, called " friction heating " was proposed, whereby friction of the material was causing the ice layer melting.

" Darwin's theory of evolution challenges the teleological argument by postulating an alternative explanation to that of an intelligent designer — namely, evolution by natural selection.

This article will start with the simplest explanation ; more complicated and alternative explanations will follow.

This can reduce the validity of an alternative explanation to a limited sub-class of lift generating conditions, or might not allow a quantitative analysis.

The name Lundy is believed to come from the old Norse word for " puffin island " ( Lundey ), lundi being the Norse word for a puffin and ey, an island, although an alternative explanation has been suggested with Lund referring to a copse, or wooded area.

The COX-3 pathway was believed to fill some of this gap but recent findings make it appear unlikely that it plays any significant role in humans and alternative explanation models are proposed.

A commonly proposed alternative explanation is that the universe is not transparent, and the light from distant stars is blocked by intermediate dark stars or absorbed by dust or gas, so that there is a bound on the distance from which light can reach the observer.

Therefore, IIH can only be diagnosed if there is no alternative explanation for the symptoms.

An alternative explanation could be that they are cyborgs, having both human and machine parts.

Most professional biologists support the modern evolutionary synthesis, not merely as an alternative explanation for the complexity of life but a better explanation with more supporting evidence.

A recent alternative explanation is that the geometry of space is not homogeneous ( due to clusters of galaxies ) and that when the data are reinterpreted to take this into account, the expansion is not speeding up after all, however this conclusion is disputed.

Whedon believes parents label their children as " indigo " to provide an alternative explanation for their children's improper behavior stemming from ADD and ADHD.

An alternative explanation is that the Secretary of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo, closed the exchange because he wanted to conserve the U. S. gold stock in order to launch the Federal Reserve System later that year, with enough gold to keep the U. S. at par with the gold standard.

The alternative to this is that if a conservative candidate is nominated the national committee will have to appeal to the trusts for their campaign funds, and in doing this will incur obligations which would make a Democratic victory absolutely fruitless.

There is a workable alternative to this potentially dangerous and harmful C. & O. - B. & O. merger scheme '' --

He is already beginning to box the compass of alternative lines of action, including doing nothing.

Accordingly, if it is not repealed by the Congress at its present session, I shall have no alternative thereafter but to direct the Secretary of Defense to disregard the section unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines otherwise.

On review the Supreme Court, via Mr. Justice Frankfurter, found southern racial problems `` a sensitive area of social policy on which the federal courts ought not to enter unless no alternative to adjudication is open ''.

A sense of self-certainty and the freedom to experiment with different roles, or confidence in one's own unique behavior as an alternative to peer-group conformity, is more easily developed during adolescence if, during early childhood, the individual was permitted to exercise initiative and encouraged to develop some autonomy.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

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

`` My feeling at the moment '', he said, `` is that we have no alternative, irrespective of some of the arguments about him.

Expressed differently: if the price for becoming a faithful follower of Jesus Christ is some form of self-destruction, whether of the body or of the mind -- sacrificium corporis, sacrificium intellectus -- then there is no alternative but that the price remain unpaid.

In any event, it is an irreversible step, and if we are at all honest with ourselves, we will know we have no other alternative than to live in the world in which God has seen fit to place us.

For we have said, in effect, that of the two alternatives to his position variously represented by the other participants in the demythologizing discussion, only one is really an alternative.

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

It will be recalled from the discussion in Section 7 that the position of the `` right '', as represented by Barth, rests on the following thesis: The only tenable alternative to Bultmann's position is a theology that ( 1 ) rejects or at least qualifies his unconditioned demand for demythologization and existential interpretation ; ;

Certainly, in analyzing an action which truly faced such alternatives, `` it is never possible that no world would be preferable to some worlds, and there are in truth no circumstances in which the destruction of human life presents itself as a reasonable alternative ''.

`` Your alternative is breathtaking '', he said, `` and, I'm frank in saying, a bit mad.

As with most mythology, there is a tale which offers an alternative version of these events: in Argonautica ( iv. 760 ) Zeus ' sister and wife Hera alludes to Thetis ' chaste resistance to the advances of Zeus, that Thetis was so loyal to Hera's marriage bond that she coolly rejected him.

Rudra could bring diseases with his arrows, but he was able to free people of them, and his alternative Shiba, is a healer physician god.

The ANOVA F – test ( of the null-hypothesis that all treatments have exactly the same effect ) is recommended as a practical test, because of its robustness against many alternative distributions.

Power analysis can assist in study design by determining what sample size would be required in order to have a reasonable chance of rejecting the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.

Augmentative and alternative communication ( AAC ) is an umbrella term that encompasses methods of communication for those with impairments or restrictions on the production or comprehension of spoken or written language.