Alternative efforts around the same time centered around repurposing prior art as a means of expressing complex thoughts.
As an alternative, efforts have been focused on ultrafine crystals, i.e. polycrystals with a grain size in the range of 500 nm to 1 μm, in which "growth twins" (twins introduced inside the grain before deformation) act as barriers against dislocation movement, thus increasing the strength in a similar way as nanocrystals but without significant loss of ductility.
For some of the most organized and better funded alternative efforts, Rio also afforded a chance to attract media attention and help.
The results of this study also imply that stem bark and leaf extracts of L. paniculata have no clinically relevant antifungal activity; however, in combination with an antibiotic for evaluating the interference of the fungal resistance profile, a significant synergistic effect for C. tropicalis is indicated, representing interesting alternative efforts in combating candidiasis.
July 2009: In late July, the GOP-alternative effort briefly falls into contradictions.
They believe the school feared they were trying to set up an alternative – an effort to hothouse their children one day a week – when their approach is intended to be complementary.
General Electric, with its Ecomagination campaign, and BP, with its alternative energy efforts, are just two of the large public companies using environmentally friendly policies as a selling point.
Pickens is an avowed Republican, bankrolling the "Swift Boat" adverts that helped George Bush defeat John Kerry in 2004, but he has kept the new alternative-energy effort free of politics.
Victor is, in a way, the counterpart to Greaves himself, the man without a structure, the energetic person left to his own devices; his rage is the alternative to efforts to construct a better organized, more supple societal order.
"All that is part of investing in a credible alternative to efforts that we don't believe will resolve the conflict," said Benjamin J. Rhodes, the president's deputy national security adviser.
