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.

Many contemporary Pueblo peoples object to the use of the term Anasazi, although there is still controversy among them on a native alternative.

Alternative medicine is frequently grouped with complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.

The term ' alternative medicine ' is generally used to describe practices used independently or in place of conventional medicine.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

The term " ethnic cleansing " was used as an alternative to " genocide " to denote not just ethnically motivated murder but also displacement, though critics charge there is no difference.

An alternative, less common term is encipherment.

Proponents argued that the name Dominion Day was a holdover from the colonial era, an argument given some impetus by the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, and others asserted that an alternative was needed as the term does not translate well into French.

* Conjugate ( graph theory ), an alternative term for a line graph

At that council he voted for acceptance of the term homoousios, having been finally convinced that there was no better alternative.

After the discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish term Antillas was assigned to the lands ; stemming from this, " Sea of the Antilles " is a common alternative name for the Caribbean Sea in various European languages.

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

Some use the term dispute resolution to refer only to alternative dispute resolution ( ADR ), that is, extrajudicial processes such as arbitration, collaborative law, and mediation used to resolve conflict and potential conflict between and among individuals, business entities, governmental agencies, and ( in the public international law context ) states.

Alternative education, also known as non-traditional education or educational alternative, is a broad term that may be used to refer to all forms of education outside of traditional education ( for all age groups and levels of education ).

He holds the position that the alternative seems to be the elaborate philosophical reduction of the word " moral " into a vacuous, useless term.

In addition, the term is used in a broader sense to cover a world-view on a wide variety of topics, including chemical evolution as an alternative term for abiogenesis or for nucleosynthesis of chemical elements, galaxy formation and evolution, stellar evolution, spiritual evolution, technological evolution and universal evolution, which seeks to explain every aspect of the world in which we live.

The term nowadays applies more to youth sports like skateboarding, snowboarding, aggressive inline skating, FMX and BMX and is closely associated with marketing aimed at the younger generation, and their favored styles of clothing and music, such as the urban baggy look associated with skateboarders and loud, fast alternative rock.

The term can also refer to the academic study of esoteric religious movements and philosophies, or more generally of alternative or marginalized religious movements or philosophies whose proponents distinguish their beliefs, practices, and experiences from mainstream institutionalized traditions.

After this Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens founded the Open Source Initiative ( OSI ), to promote the term " open-source software " as an alternative term for free software.

This was also used by Open Source Initiative ( OSI ) under the name " The Open Source Definition ", the only change being that use of the term " free software " was replaced by OSI's alternative term for free software, " open-source software ".

They used alternative arts, street theatre, folk music, and psychedelic rock as a part of their lifestyle and as a way of expressing their feelings, their protests and their vision of the world and life.

In the latter case, it provides an alternative formula for expressing local relationships between distances:

Another interest of Abraham's concerns alternative ways of expressing mathematics, for example visually or aurally.

An alternative method, the Dundee technique, entails placing multiple punctures in the swollen foreskin with a fine needle, and then expressing the edema fluid by manual pressure.

In this state of extreme danger, we have no alternative left but an abject submission to the will of those over-bearing tyrants, or a total separation from the crown and government of Great Britain, uniting and exerting the strength of all America for defense, and forming alliances with foreign powers for commerce and aid in war: Wherefore, appealing to the SEARCHER OF HEARTS for the sincerity of former declarations, expressing our desire to preserve a connection with that nation, and that we are driven from that inclination by their wicked councils, and the eternal laws of self-preservation,

It also gave Stalin and his Communist Party greater control over Soviet culture ; restricting people from expressing alternative geopolitical ideologies that differed to those represented in Socialist Realism.

An alternative etymology suggests that the medieval Latin merulus ( mentioned from the end of the 10th century ) functioned as a diminutive of Latin merle, expressing an image of blackbirds sitting on a wall.

In fact, the raters may have even thought that there was something wrong with the people expressing the alternative response.

Additionally, an open list system can also allow a voter the alternative of voting for the party as a whole without expressing a preference between individuals.

" Khalidi describes the Arab population of British Mandatory Palestine as having " overlapping identities ," with some or many expressing loyalties to villages, regions, a projected nation of Palestine, an alternative of inclusion in a Greater Syria, an Arab national project, as well as to Islam.

He offered voters an alternative to boss-dominated politics, expressing a " forthright espousal of government responsibility for social welfare.

An exit might involve expressing the anger in some way as an alternative to self-injuring behaviour.

A CDATA section is merely an alternative syntax for expressing character data ; there is no semantic difference between character data that manifests as a CDATA section and character data that manifests as in the usual syntax in which "" and "" would be represented by "" and "", respectively.

# Study of the ways in which all varieties of psychology are culturally historically constructed, and how alternative varieties of psychology may confirm or resist ideological assumptions in mainstream models ;

A 2010 study by Sean Aday comparing Fox News Channel's Special Report With Brit Humes and NBC's Nightly News coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2005 found that both underplayed bad news ; it concluded that " Fox News was much more sympathetic to the administration than NBC ", suggesting that " if scholars continue to find evidence of a partisan or ideological bias at FNC ... they should consider Fox as alternative, rather than mainstream, media ".

Some theorists and writers argued that human rights, liberal democracy and capitalist free market economics had become the only remaining ideological alternative for nations in the post – Cold War world.

He described paraphilia as " a sexuoerotic embellishment of, or alternative to the official, ideological norm.

Some theorists and writers argued that human rights, liberal democracy and capitalist free market economy had become the only remaining ideological alternative for nations in the post-Cold War world.

Politically, it was also considered desirable to create a Soviet Jewish homeland as an ideological alternative to Zionism and the theory put forward by Socialist Zionists such as Ber Borochov that the Jewish Question could be resolved by creating a Jewish territory in Palestine.

This formed a watershed in Norwegian politics, in that the party adopted a stronger ideological alternative to the social democratic establishment that had dominated post-World War II politics.

Many of these dictatorships were pro-capitalist, consistent with at least some US ideological goals ; thus the United States would form alliances with certain dictators, believing them to be the closest thing their respective nations had to a legitimate government — and in any case much better than the alternative of a communist revolution in those nations.

Al-Muhajiroun's proclaimed aims are to establish public awareness about Islam, to influence public opinion in favor of the sharia, to convince members of society that Islam is inherently political and a viable ideological alternative, to unite Muslims on a global scale in the threats facing the Ummah and to resume the Islamic way of life by re-establishing the Islamic Caliphate.

Published in 1987, Politics issues a devastating critique of contemporary social theory and politics, develops a profound and highly original theory of structural and ideological change, gives an alternative account of world history, and then works out the consequences in a vision for the future.

Cornelius offered the inventive and complex opera as an alternative to the contemporary German opera composers such as Richard Wagner, whose ideological fervor he found overwhelming.

In the words of Tom Sindlinger " The Alberta Reform Movement was a moderate and practical alternative to ideological advocates and the old way of doing things.