Changes in the operational constraints of the controlled process (e.g. of available resources, nominal set-points, occurrences of failures) have to be accounted for by dedicated alternative routines, i.e. dependability is restricted to variations which are envisaged during design.
PEM has been introduced as a lower-cost, dedicated alternative to PET with a higher spatial resolution designed to detect small primary breast cancers.
Members participate in seminars, lectures, museum displays, conferences dedicated to alternative energy, and numerous Earth Day and ecological fairs.
"It's probably not an underground sand crab," said Tom Van Flandern, an astronomer and president of Meta Research, an organization dedicated to "alternative" ideas in astronomy.
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, the world's first graduate research institution dedicated to alternative energy, environmental technologies and sustainability, has appointed MIT Professor Fred Moavenzadeh as its president.
Developed with the support and collaboration of MIT, the Masdar Institute is a not-for-profit, post-graduate research institute dedicated to alternative energy, environmental technologies and sustainability.
Although it's true that most of our listening now happens online, it's hard to argue that wading through MP3 blogs and podcasts is a substitute to a BBC radio station dedicated to alternative music.
The ShopStyle website has an online boutique dedicated to alternative wedding dresses featuring designers such as Valentino, Emilia Wickstead and The Row, as well as high-street favourites such as Ghost's Hollywood Cassidy style that can be dyed to order.
His experiments in back-to-the-land living, most notably the Farallones Institute, a community in Sonoma County dedicated to alternative technologies, nurtured the careers of young visionaries like Peter Calthorpe, now one of the country's most respected urban and regional planners.
They met at the University of East Anglia (where their author studied for his MA in creative writing), and along with their greetings card magnate landlord Patrick, who was smitten with Freya's friend Janet, formed an uneasy ménage at the heart of a commune dedicated to alternative living.
