The focus might be on alternative structures (e.g., open classrooms), alternative subject matter (e.g., religious instruction), or alternative relationships (e.g., more informal relations between students and teachers or between students of different ages).
Know the alternative subject should be replaced by the more rigorous science of medical studies of the nervous systems including brain scans.
The disagreement is not about whether individual subjects can be shown to have inherent absolute value, but rather if they can be shown to be more valuable than one or several alternative subjects that have recently emerged.
As an alternative, subjects were asked to collect as many milk samples as comfortably possible over 3 days.
Currently, the design of urban rail transit systems is mostly approached empirically with a trial-and-error process: planners develop alternatives subject to design specifications and local conditions, and then evaluate these alternatives based on project budget as well as system performance criteria.
The third alternative, the subject of a 2012 article in The Columbia Law Review, focuses on what the article's authors call the irreconcilable instructions Congress will have provided to Mr. Obama if it fails to act.
On Martin's recommended alternative, a subject's introspective perspective on her experience coincides with, and is not independent of, her experiential perspective on the world.
According to this alternative, the subject of intentionality does not have to be a 'rational unity' of agents (cf. Rovane 1998; Tollefsen 2002; Pettit 2003).
Our approach to assigning the scores was to explicitly consider various types of alignment alternatives and subject the scores to conditions reflecting what is perceived as the most plausible choice in every alternative.
But these alternatives are subject to large diversification and liquidity risks and don't all have long-term track records.
A classic measure of idea production, introduced by Guilford in 1967, revolves around the notion of "alternative uses": subjects are asked how many novel uses they can imagine for a paper clip, say, or a newspaper or a brick.
