The phrase "an alternative response is" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when introducing a different option or suggestion in response to a question or situation.
Example: "In addressing the issue of climate change, an alternative response is to invest in renewable energy sources."
Alternatives: "another option is" or "a different approach is".
Engaging the TCR machinery in order to prevent signalling through the TCR while the cell is committed to an alternative response is a fail-safe method to stop the cell from responding to two opposing instructions.
An alternative response is to face up to the inevitable pain of loss and to relinquish the beloved in advance, so to speak, by giving up hope of enjoying a happy relationship within this lifetime.
An alternative response is that you experience the figure in different ways merely because you attend to different parts of the figure at different times.
An alternative response is to use further separation of duties in order to reduce the amount of information available to Carol for use in a frequency-based cryptanalytic attack.
An alternative response is so-called 'positive rumination', "the tendency to respond to positive affective states with recurrent thoughts about positive self-qualities, positive affective experience, and one's favourable life circumstances" (Feldman et al. 2008, p. 509).
Nor is it obvious that any alternative response was possible, since, as Watt eventually accepted, the law had been broken.
A further alternative response was also provided: 'I already have this problem'.
The alternative responses were on a six-point scale as follows: 1: never experienced stress; 2: some period of stress ever; 3: some period of stress in the past 5 years; 4: several periods of stress in the past 5 years; 5: permanent stress in the past year; and 6: permanent stress over the past 5 years.
In part 2, the differences between the alternative responses are often very subtle (e.g., mostly, chiefly, greatly, widely), making the test difficult also for highly proficient speakers of English.
However, to include temporary therapeutic benefit, an alternative response evaluation was performed, yielding "best response" which was documented separately at both points in time.
An alternative response could be an evoked component that simply repeats at α-rate but does not constitute a full α-wave.
