It also means that their letters can be used as an alternative method of " numbering " ordered items, in such contexts as numbered lists.

* Cone Penetrometer apparatus, an alternative method to the Casagrande Device in measuring the Liquid Limit of a soil sample

An alternative method is to define the region based on ethnicity, and in particular, areas populated by Eastern Turkic, Eastern Iranian, or Mongolian peoples.

( An alternative method for indicating list items, without numbering them, is to use a bulleted list.

An alternative method, called " rythmo band " ( or " lip-sync band "), has historically been utilized in Canada and France.

René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) developed analytic geometry, an alternative method for formalizing geometry.

An alternative method is program derivation, to " develop proof and program hand in hand ".

They begin with a critique of the past ” such that they review the ways women have been oppressed ; “ they seek alternative biblical and extrabiblical traditions that support ” the ideals Feminists are trying to advance ; and finally “ feminists set forth their own unique method of theology, which includes the revisioning of Christian categories .” Grenz and Olson also mention, however, while all feminists agree there is a flaw in the system, there is disagreement over how far outside of the Bible and the Christian tradition women are willing to go to seek support for their ideals.

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 ).

Braid therefore revised the theory and practice of Mesmerism and developed his own method of " hypnotism " as a more rational and " common sense " alternative.

An alternative method of solar-calendar intercalation, which does not vary the number of days in the year, works by varying the lengths of certain days.

For the benefit of users wishing to produce statistics and indexes oriented towards medical care, the Ninth Revision included an optional alternative method of classifying diagnostic statements, including information about both an underlying general disease and a manifestation in a particular organ or site.

A common alternative method of securing LDAP communication is using an SSL tunnel.

During 1995-1997, the Library of Congress received $ 2 million in appropriations to deacidify 72, 000 books using the Bookkeeper commercial method and evaluate alternative methods.

The baggage train provided an alternative supply method that was not dependent on access to a water-way.

An alternative method used by home gardeners and smaller-scale growers involves covering the growing area with organic mulches such as straw or with plastic sheets.

An alternative method to solving, once finding the first non-trivial solution, one could take the original equation and factor the left hand side as a difference of squares, yielding Once in this form, one can simply raise each side of the equation to the kth power, and recombining the factored form to a single difference statement.

An alternative method involves the application of unfolding measurement models, the most general being the Hyperbolic Cosine Model ( Andrich & Luo, 1993 ).

An alternative recording method not requiring a grid is also in use, where positions on a board are labeled left to right by letters a through h and top to bottom ( far-to-near ) by digits 1 through 8 ( Note that this is the opposite of the chess standard, with numerals running upward away from the side ( White ) that has a through h left to right, and also that the perspective may be that of either player ( with no fixed standard )), so that the very first move of a game may be ( based upon standard starting set-up ) d3, c4, f5 or e6.

An alternative method is to install another layer directly over the worn layer.

An alternative to coating for some biological samples is to increase the bulk conductivity of the material by impregnation with osmium using variants of the OTO staining method ( O-osmium, T-thiocarbohydrazide, O-osmium ).

The Smolen convention ( see below ) provides an alternative method to show a five-card major and game-going values.

An alternative method is to estimate the current altitude ( angle ) of the sun from navigation tables, then set the index bar to that angle on the arc, apply suitable shades only to the index mirror, and point the instrument directly at the horizon, sweeping it from side to side until a flash of the sun's rays are seen in the telescope.

Boehme presented his system as an alternative to the Aristotelian method which he believed could provide a more profound knowledge and more control of nature than the Aristotelian method did.

In the 1930s, Skolem developed alternative models satisfying the axioms.

An alternative line taken by Singer about the need for ethics is that living the ethical life may be, on the whole, more satisfying than seeking only material gain.

The pragmatist may go on, as David Hume did on the topic induction, that there is no satisfying alternative to granting this premise.

where v is any fixed vector satisfying Av = b. Geometrically, this says that the solution set to Ax = b is the translation of the null space of A by the vector v. See also Fredholm alternative.

The possibility that the person might achieve happiness and satisfying interpersonal relationships as a gay man or lesbian are not presented, nor are alternative approaches to dealing with the effects of societal stigmatization discussed.

The finite intersection property is useful in formulating an alternative definition of compactness: a space is compact if and only if every collection of closed sets satisfying the finite intersection property has nonempty intersection itself.

It was introduced by Henry Bottomley as an alternative to the Bonne projection to reduce the extent of extreme distortion at the edges and give a more satisfying overall shape.

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.

The situation is complex, however, because the relatively free Russian media is allowed to transmit television programming, sell newspapers and conduct journalistic activities in Belarus ( though some Russian journalists have been expelled by the Belarusian government ) thus giving some members of the public, typically those in large cities with many Russian residents, access to an alternative point of view in the Russian language ( nearly all Belarusians understand and most of them speak Russian ).

BCI has coordinated usage of the language since 1971 for augmentative and alternative communication.

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities also defines the communication to include the display of text, Braille, tactile communication, large print, accessible multimedia, as well as written and plain language, human-reader, augmentative and alternative modes, means and formats of communication, including accessible information and communication technology.

In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future ( this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future ).

Some software may be bypassed successfully by using alternative protocols such as FTP or telnet or HTTPS, conducting searches in a different language, using a proxy server or a circumventor such as Psiphon.

However, this political restriction is less confining than it may first appear in that the Marxist historical framework is surprisingly flexible, and a rather simple matter to modify an alternative historical theory to use language that at least does not challenge the Marxist interpretation of history.

Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).

In public statements, Young claimed the alphabet was intended to replace the traditional Latin alphabet with an alternative, more phonetically accurate alphabet for the English language.

The language of the DSM was described as " simultaneously precise and vague " in order to provide an aura of scientific objectivity yet not limit psychiatrists in a semantic or financial sense, and the manual itself compared to " a militia's Web page, insofar as it constitutes an alternative reality under siege " by critics.

Some of these languages, e. g., in worlds of fantasy fiction, alternative universes, Earth's future, or alternate history, are presented as distorted versions or dialects of modern English or other natural language, while others are independently designed conlangs.

In late 1953, John W. Backus submitted a proposal to his superiors at IBM to develop a more practical alternative to assembly language for programming their IBM 704 mainframe computer.

It is an official alternative language for local administration purposes in Gmina Sierakowice and Gmina Parchowo in Pomeranian Voivodeship.

To address this shortcoming, in 1969, Frank DeRemer proposed two simplified versions of the LR parser, namely the Look-Ahead LR ( LALR ) and the Simple LR parser that had much lower memory requirements at the cost of less language recognition power with the LALR parser being the most powerful alternative.

Leet ( or " 1337 "), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the Internet.

Use of M as an alternative name for the language was approved around the same time.

When speed is important, Python programmers tend to try using a JIT compiler such as Psyco or using an alternative language implementation such as PyPy.

It makes the language " sweeter " for humans to use: things can be expressed more clearly, more concisely, or in an alternative style that some may prefer.

Tamil (, alternative spelling: Thamizh ) is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of South India and North-east Sri Lanka.

Currently, there are two open source alternative implementations of Turing: Open Turing, an open source version of the original interpreter, TPlus, a native compiler for the concurrent systems programming language variant Turing Plus, and OpenT, an abandoned project to develop a compiler for Turing.

On 30 June 2000, Muslim nations that are members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ) officially resolved to support the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, an alternative document that says people have " freedom and right to a dignified life in accordance with the Islamic Shari ’ ah ", without any discrimination on grounds of " race, colour, language, sex, religious belief, political affiliation, social status or other considerations ".

In some countries, such as Russia and Poland, a voice-over provided by a single artist is commonly used on television programs as a language localization technique, as an alternative to full dub localization.

* Links ( programming language ), a web application programming language that presents an alternative to the usual three-tier architecture of web development.

With the appearance of XML as an alternative to SGML, XML's associated stylesheet language XSL was also widely and rapidly adopted, from around 1999.