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British immigrants came from a country where accoucheurs were an increasingly acceptable alternative to midwives.

People will not be persuaded to use cars less by this mechanism, because of the absence of public transport, unless there is an efficient, reliable and affordable alternative.

Oral delivery represents another attractive alternative to parenteral injection for large-scale human vaccination.

A much better alternative seems to be to raise (marginal, and to some degree average) water prices, and instead limit rationing.

In developing countries, battery-operated spinning disc sprayers are a cheap alternative for resourcepoor farmers.

He objects to the "impoverished theoretical agenda" within which we place our review, but does not outline a coherent alternative.

The case being studied was the introduction of an organizational change, which was a community-based alternative to the hospital rehabilitation of patients.

In the event of defiance, do they offer a constructive alternative, perhaps based on a different normative perspective, or new clinical trial data?

Because of geometric limitations, the latter method could not be used and the following, more convenient alternative substituted.

These techniques require substantial capital investment and skilled personnel; simple, cost-effective alternative detection protocols were therefore developed in this study.

So the 'instability ' idea to exploded planets is no longer a credible alternative to a planet that formed in the normal way and later exploded.

Assuming it is feasible, does basic income, in this sense, represent a desirable alternative to welfare contractualism?

Thus, a reliable commitment never to defect again - a commitment to correction - can be an economical alternative.

We conclude that, detachable balloon occlusion of coronary arteryfistulasis a safe and effective alternative to surgical ligation in selected pediatric patients.

The study indicated that biological control of house flies can be an efficient alternative to chemical control.

A full-fledged annual zero-base budgeting procedure is not a feasible alternative, but recurrent attempts to reconsider policies should be made.

That independent and professional advice will consider the position of new drugs and whether there is a new suitable generic alternative to replace the branded drug.

Section 7 argues that ex post prioritarianism was never a genuine alternative to utilitarianism anyway.

Sweet potato has been used to be a healthy alternative to french fries.

Pasture-based production is associated with many social benefits in addition to offering a more humane alternative to the confinement model6,7.

I agree that it would be a beneficial provision and useful and inexpensive alternative to receivership proceedings.

Williams sets up operant conditioning as the only logical alternative and shows that operant conditioning cannot explain the emergence of facial expressions to pain.

Heart-lung transplantation would appear to be the only alternative, although availability of organs and the known long-term effects of anti-rejection therapy may prove unsurmountable obstacles.

They consider plausible alternative explanations, address them with evidence, and promote deeper scientific understanding of evolution and its consequences.

Based on these biological constraints, we propose a practical alternative to current conservation and breeding strategies.

Expanding the reduced-form model with explanatory variables may introduce serious multicollinearity problems, a reason why decomposition analysis is a preferable alternative for investigating the origins of change in emissions.

However, the ' screening ' strategy is the preferred alternative for persons 35 years in age.

This model offers a promising alternative to traditional school system policies.

The hospice movement began in the 1960s as a radical alternative to traditional cancer care.

If this system is capable of producing acceptable results in real-time, it becomes a realistic alternative to the manual insertion of accents.

But to assert that there is always a reasonable alternative that any reasonable person would recognize is to blink reality.

Primary angioplasty is an effective and safe alternative to thrombolytic therapy.

So culturally immersed are we that we almost take it for granted that there is no satisfactory alternative to chronology as an indicator of age.

One sensible alternative is that males are simply more susceptible to infection than females.

It is important, though, that sound alternative products are available.

That seems to me to be the stark alternative to a dictatorial imposition.

This is a somewhat alarming result, given that the suggested alternative algorithm (stochastic gradient) is just a small deviation from the commonly used least-squares algorithm.

Other reasons given for eating in the living room include the lack of a suitable alternative, especially of a sufficiently large kitchen.

First-best arguments, by contrast, see direct democracy as imperfect in one way or another, and see indirect or representative institutions as a politically superior alternative.

To provide a sustainable alternative strategy to chemical pest control, a diversity of control methods must be integrated into the pest control programme.

The lack of a viable alternative meant that the existing paradigm was preserved, even in the face of apparent policy failure.

Did you see a reformed socialist system as a workable alternative?