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2009 in Scottish television

28 August – At the Edinburgh International Television Festival News Corporation Chairman James Murdoch delivers the MacTaggart Memorial Lecture in which he launches an attack on the BBC and UK media regulator Ofcom.

2ergo

On 18 September 2009, 2ergo were fined £80,000 by PhonepayPlus, regulator for premium rate phone-paid services, for sending misleading unsolicited marketing text messages.

Aventas group

The Irish Times reports that Council for the regulator said that the company had "significantly breached" its solvency ratios in recent months.

Bharathappuzha

Another major project is the Regulator cum bridge at Thrithala built on the Velliyankallu bridge inaugurated by former Kerala Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan.

Children's culture

A research review done on behalf of Ofcom, an independent regulator in the U.K. communications industry, scholars from the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media Institute of Education, University of London researchers reviewed literature relating to children’s media literacy focusing on the media formats of television, radio, internet, and the mobile telephone.

CTNNBIP1

The encoded protein is a negative regulator of the Wnt signaling pathway.

Cube Interactive

Cube Interactive owns a license, granted by Ofcom (the UK broadcasting regulator), to operate on the 8 MHz (542–550Mhz) interleaved spectrum in the Cardiff, Newport, parts of Bristol, and Weston-super-Mare.

Daniel Whittle Harvey

In 1839, he was appointed Registrar of the Metropolitan Public Carriages, becoming the chief regulator of the taxi trade in London.

Denise Holt

She is a Board member of Ofqual (the examinations regulator in England), a member of the NHS Pay Review Body, and Independent Chair of the nominations committee of the Alzheimer's Society.

Direct-coupled amplifier

Direct-coupled amplifiers are used in TV receivers, computers, regulator circuits and other electronic instruments.

Edward H. Ntalami

An attempted takeover bid of Carbacid Investments by BOC Group was aborted after the capital markets regulator declined to endorse the deal.

Falgore Game Reserve

However, one of the main objectives of the game reserve is to serve as regulator of silting and sedimentation which threatens the multipurpose Tiga Dam which is the backbone of the Kano River Project.

Financial Regulator

The Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and finance spokesman Richard Bruton called for the board and senior management of the Financial Regulator to be sacked.

FNRS

FnrS RNA, fumurate and nitrate reductase regulator small RNA

Formosa bond

The major designer and promoter of the Formosa bond was Lee Shyan-yuan, a board member of Taiwan's market regulator, the Financial Supervisory Commission.

Freddie Mac

On May 23, 2006, the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac regulator, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, issued the results of a 27 month long investigation.

HCPC

Health and Care Professions Council: The statutory regulator of health and care professionals in the United Kingdom, or

Histidine kinase

A two-component system, involving histidine kinase and a variable response regulator protein, may be critical to the virulence of some fungal strains such as Candida albicans, which is often responsible for causing candidiasis in immunocompromised persons.

IPEX syndrome

IPEX (immunodysregulation polyendocrinopathy enteropathy X-linked syndrome) is a rare disease linked to the dysfunction of the transcription factor FOXP3, widely considered to be the master regulator of the regulatory T cell lineage.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet

At the conclusion of this assignment, Jean-Pierre Jouyet was then nominated by President Sarkozy on the 14 November 2008 to become Chairman of the French securities regulator, the AMF (l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers), to replace Michel Prada, at the end of his non-renewable 5 year mandate, on 15 December 2008.

Actually Chairman of the French securities regulator, the AMF (l’Autorité des Marchés Financiers), since 15 November 2008; immediately prior to which he was Minister of State, attached to the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, responsible for European Affairs in the François Fillon government from May 2007.

Jeffrey Lucy

Jeffrey John Lucy AO (born 6 November 1946) is the former Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australia's Capital Markets and Corporations Regulator.

Louis Blom-Cooper

Blom-Cooper is well known for his regulatory work, particularly as Chair of the Press Council (UK) now the Press Complaints Commission and later as the founding chair of the premium rate telephony regulator, ICSTIS now PhonepayPlus.

MTORC2

mTORC2 has been shown to function as an important regulator of the cytoskeleton through its stimulation of F-actin stress fibers, paxillin, RhoA, Rac1, Cdc42, and protein kinase C α (PKCα).

Neuroanatomy

Mouse mutants: Rab23 is an essential negative regulator of the mouse Sonic hedgehog signaling pathway.

Office of the Information Commissioner

Information Commissioner's Office, the UK non-departmental public body and regulator for data protection

Ombudsmen in Australia

Government or an independent regulator, such as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) may be involved by approving the scheme and ensuring that it complies with certain standards.

Phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate

Rather, they are brought together by an associated regulator of PIKfyve, called ArPIKfyve/VAC14, that scaffolds a ternary regulatory complex, known as the PAS complex (from the first letters of PIKfyve/ArPIKfyve/Sac3).

Piura metropolitan area

According to Regulator Plan of transportation Routes of the city the metropolis of Piura is the conurbation of Piura, Castilla and Catacaos.

Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein

Polypyrimidine tract-binding protein is an RNA-binding protein, also known as PTB or hnRNP I. PTB functions mainly as a splicing regulator, although it is also involved in alternative 3' end processing, mRNA stability and RNA localization.

Rabaptin

Rabaptin is a 100kDa coiled-coil protein that interacts with the GTP form of the small GTPase Rab5 (see RAB5A, RAB5B, RAB5C) a potent regulator of endocytic transport.

Rail Safety Act

The centralised regulator proposal has been opposed at times by New South Wales, Victoria and the Western Australian rail safety regulator who have pointed to a lack of quantitative or qualitative evidence of impacts of the current jurisdiction-based national system on operator costs, particularly in light of the predominance of intrastate urban rail movements in Australia over interstate movements.

Rhys Wakefield

During his time on the show he was involved in a controversial storyline which led the Australian broadcasting regulator (ACMA) to conclude that scenes had breached the Australian broadcasting code, a finding which was responsible for the series being re-classified as PG.

Richard M. Brewer

The confirmed killings claimed to have been carried out by the Regulators during Brewer's period as leader were those of Sheriff William Brady, William Morton, deputy George W. Hindman, lawman/outlaw Frank Baker, Buckshot Roberts, and fellow Regulator William McCloskey, whom the Regulators believed to have betrayed them.

Root Into Europe

Henry Root, a right-wing fish dealer who disapproves of the impending European Union, declares himself England's 'European regulator' in a letter to the British Prime Minister, then John Major.

Scuba set

After having travelled to England and discovered William James' invention, the French physician Manuel Théodore Guillaumet, from Argentan (Normandy), patented in 1838 the oldest known regulator mechanism.

Star 107.9

The station ceased broadcasting on 29 September 2006 following a decision by UKRD to return the licence to the United Kingdom's broadcasting and telecommunications regulator, Ofcom.

Stephen Byers

The first source of controversy in the Railtrack incident was the decision, taken at short notice with disregard for the regulator Tom Winsor, and implemented over a weekend, to ask the High Court to put the privatised railway infrastructure company Railtrack into railway administration, on 7 October 2001.

Synchronous condenser

A PLC based controller with PF controller and regulator will allow the system to be set to meet a given power factor or can be set to produce a specified amount of reactive power.

Taxi Services Commission

The agency became the State's ongoing taxi regulator in place of the Victorian Taxi Directorate on 1 July 2013, chaired by former ACCC Chairman and Australian businessman Graeme Samuel.

Taxicabs of Australia

In the second stage, following Professor Fels’ investigation, a Taxi Services Commission will take over the role of industry regulator, giving it the powers and tools necessary to reform the taxi industry.

TP53-inducible glycolysis and apoptosis regulator

TIGAR acts as a direct regulator of fructose-2,6-bisphosphate levels and hexokinase 2 activity, and this can lead indirectly to many changes within the cell in a chain of biochemical events.

William Candidus

After his return from the war, he accepted the position of tone regulator in the piano factory of Steinway & Sons, in New York City.


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