In areas where a formal justice system had yet to be established or the rudimentary policing apparatus had proved inadequate in the face of rampant crime, it was not uncommon for citizens (called "regulators") to band together in "committees of vigilance" to combat crime and to introduce order where none existed.
One example is co-primary sharing, where the spectrum regulator licenses a frequency band to multiple operators without specifying the boundaries between the bands of spectrum sharing operators and all the operators have equal right to access the shareable spectrum.
Two high-risk genes have been identified: the cell cycle regulator CDKN2A on chromosomal band 9p21 (Hussussian et al, 1994) and the cyclin-dependent kinase-4 (CDK4) on chromosomal band 12p14 (Zuo et al, 1996), the products of which are known to be components of potent tumour-suppression pathway.
Next year America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the telecoms and media regulator, will sell a band of radio wavelengths that will become available in 2009 as television broadcasters migrate from analogue to digital technology.The usual buyers for such spectrum would be America's existing telecoms operators, such as AT&T and Verizon.
Regulator-regulated gene associations.
They can also point out that liberalisation is now possible, without the risk of a free-for-all, in part because of years of harmonisation by regulators: the 3G expansion band is, for example, only clear for use by new technologies because it was originally fenced off for 3G by so many countries.
In 2011, the Portuguese telecommunications regulator, ANACOM, auctioned LTE bands 7 and 20.
The town, whipped into a fury by horse whipping and thievery and, even murder, later formed a band of "Regulators" to hunt down and bring the bandits to justice.
However, when it was submitted to Exterion Media, which regulates advertisements on the tube, and Clear Channel, a regulator for bus shelters, the band were told the poster was not suitable to run in its original form.
Last year American regulators authorised gastric bands for patients who are less than severely obese.Research on other medical methods to fight the flab continues.
