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 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.

Several concepts that provide alternative definitions for the reaction mechanisms involved and their application in solving related problems exist.

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.

The binary numeral system of Gray codes gives an alternative way of solving the puzzle.

If there are alternative ways of solving a problem, we do not sit to determine which of them is best suited to achieve a valid state objective.

* Comment: The QR decomposition provides an alternative way of solving the system of equations without inverting the matrix A.

Use of the Smith chart utility has grown steadily over the years and it is still widely used today, not only as a problem solving aid, but as a graphical demonstrator of how many RF parameters behave at one or more frequencies, an alternative to using tabular information.

While he claimed that the extension to Ireland of the local government reforms already carried out in Great Britain had always been intended, the sudden conversion to the " alternative policy " was in fact a way of solving a political crisis at Westminster.

In addition, in March 2006 Nawash was invited to Jerusalem to advance an alternative approach to solving the Palestinian / Israeli conflict.

An alternative ( solution ) can be found by solving a mathematical model.

An alternative way of solving Maxwell's equations that can treat arbitrary dispersion easily is the Pseudospectral Spatial-Domain method ( PSSD ), which instead propagates the fields forward in space.

It did not serve to contrast the existing order of society with a possible alternative order, because the age of innocence was not a possible alternative once man had sinned.

Against such a termination of human life on earth by human action, he then proposes as an alternative that we `` negotiate at once with the Russians and get the best terms which are available '', that we deliberately `` negotiate from comparative weakness ''.

One alternative would be that having failed to grow marrows once, Poirot is determined to have another go, but this is specifically denied by Poirot himself.

While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of the Big Bang and those of alternative cosmological models, most scientists became convinced that some version of the Big Bang scenario best fit observations after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum ( i. e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength ) was found to match that of thermal radiation from a black body.

It is a Nash equilibrium that is " evolutionarily " stable: once it is fixed in a population, natural selection alone is sufficient to prevent alternative ( mutant ) strategies from invading successfully.

During the standards committee battle over whether the " minimum trip count " for the FORTRAN 77 < CODE > DO </ CODE > statement should be zero ( allowing no execution of the block ) or one ( the " plunge-ahead " < CODE > DO </ CODE >), another facetious alternative was proposed ( by Loren Meissner ) to have the minimum trip be two — since there is no need for a loop if it is only executed once.

Cordwain, once a synonym of cordovan ( through Old French cordewan ) meaning " from Córdoba " describes painted or gilded embossed leather hangings manufactured in panels and assembled for covering walls as an alternative to tapestry.

" His second argument, which follows from the first, is that once the caricature of " constant speedism " is dismissed, we are left with one logical alternative, which Dawkins terms " variable speedism.

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 US edition, once again by A & E Home Video, includes the first North American release of an alternative edit of " Arrival " ( in high definition ), as well as " The Alternate Version of ' The Chimes of Big Ben '" from the earlier DVD / VHS releases ( in standard definition due to the degraded source material ) and assorted documentaries and behind-the-scenes footage.

Barrow, a fervent reformer and once a member of the Barbados Labour Party, had left the party to form his own Democratic Labour Party, as the liberal alternative to the conservative BLP government under Adams.

Darius did attempt to restore his once great army after his defeat at the hands of Alexander, but he failed to raise a force comparable to that which had fought at Gaugamela, partly because the defeat had undermined his authority, and also because Alexander ’ s liberal policy, for instance in Babylonia and in Persis, offered an acceptable alternative to Persian domination.

An alternative approach that often works better in such situations, known as Gibbs sampling, involves choosing a new sample for each dimension separately from the others, rather than choosing a sample for all dimensions at once.

As with many towns of similar size, the centre is not as thriving as it once was but Glastonbury supports a large number of alternative shops.

In the pea example, once the dominance relationships of the two alleles are known, it is possible to designate the dominant allele that produces a round shape by a capital-letter symbol R, and the alternative recessive allele that produces a wrinkled shape by a lower-case symbol r. The homozygous dominant, heterozygous, and homozygous recessive genotypes are then written RR, Rr, and rr, respectively.

Club, alternative rock musician Bob Mould was reminded of an interviewer who once referred to Mould as " the most depressed man in rock ".

While a few reputable mainstream scientists once investigated some of these theories as reasonable hypotheses, this is no longer the case, as continuing research has invalidated the alternative ideas.

Afterwards, the show would employ this alternative format whenever events warranted, usually once every few months.

Benzylpenicillin was once the drug of choice with chloramphenicol as a good alternative in allergic patients.

A member of the European Parliament or some alternative expert will generally visit once to answer questions and quickly discuss the topic with the Committee.

Originally it was not competitive with the Daily Bugle while Jameson was still in charge, but it became an alternative view to The DB once Bennett took control.

Precrime is based on the notion that once one unpleasant future pathway is identified, an alternative, better one can be created with the arrest of the intended perpetrator.

Having escaped the destruction of Earth once more and survived further adventures, Arthur eventually finds himself once more back on Earth ( or rather an alternative Earth founded by the Dolphins to save the human race from extinction ).