Sentences with phrase «act as a regulator»

(1) It issues and redeems paper money — United States and Treasury notes;... (4) it transfers money to move the crops;... (6) it acts as a regulator of the rate of discount by contracting and expanding the currency through its operations upon the deposits in banks and in its own vaults; (7) it keeps the gold reserve of the country.

The KAP1 protein acts as a regulator for several other genes which allow the brain to grow healthily and develop several types of brain cell.

Despite the opening of these countries to international capital, their economic systems continue to be designed in which the state acts as regulator of private and state economic activity.

It is clearly now a bigger player than 20 or more years ago because it has warmed more than the other oceans, which get relief from ocean dynamics (ENSO in the Pacific and the Thermohaline circulation in Atlantic act as regulators of heat build up).

Either way, I don't think it actually disproves or proves dangerous anthropogenic global warming (after all, CO2 could still have a long term influence even if thunderclouds do act as a regulator of temperature), but a sympathetic criticism would make for more interesting reading.

Science being the record of truth in an investigation, it also acts as regulator — Hansen and Carter can not both be right, and yet the scientific method ultimately produces but one correct solution or no solution at all.

The legal service provider task force is conducting a consultation to determine which legal services should be regulated and if the law society should act as regulator.

Much thought would need to go into how that regulatory body works, such as who can act as the regulator, whether they have insurance and re-insurance, use of hard or soft law, individual accreditations and membership, sanctions, etc..

Regulated solicitors acting as the regulator for property developers may be a sound premise because they are in the «field» of daily property transactions, they have updated knowledge and can create mechanisms to govern property developers.

Not exact matches

Health insurance companies are exploring new ways to diversify their revenues with acquisitions in acute care after federal regulators blocked two major mergers in the sector, and insurance exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, came under pressure from Republicans.

Even with the act's regulations in place, there will probably be lingering questions about whether crowdfunding sites are serving merely as information portals or as securities broker - dealers that must register with federal regulators.

If the SEC regulators make Title III of the JOBS Act workable (as it relates to crowdfunding), thereby imposing less restrictions on non-accredited investors, the uncapped crowdfunding market will continue to swell through more innovative platforms and startups.

Those regulated exchanges, though, are dwarfed by unregulated ones such as Bitfinex and several that have popped up in South Korea, where regulators have been slow to act.

Although the Chief Justice acknowledged that this argument had some merit, the more determinative factor — and the key difference between the statutory immunity provisions relied upon by the ERCB and Alberta Environment — was that the immunity clause with respect to the former explicitly contemplated the regulator as an entity («the Board or a member of the Board...») whereas the immunity provisions under the Water Act and the EPEA did not (referring only to «persons» in various capacities; see paras 62 — 71).

When the DOL proposed its rule, it did so as the regulator of private industry pension plans under the Employee Retirement Investment Security Act, better known as ERISA.

Regulators implemented a broad range of guardrails, such as the Dodd - Frank Act, to ensure something similar wouldn't happen again.

Despite its obvious importance, federal policy makers and regulators still have not affirmed or promulgated a view of the «Best Interest» standard as drawn from the Advisers Act and common law.

NEW YORK, NY, October 9, 2017 — Despite widespread criticism regarding the heightened regulatory environment that has pervaded since the introduction of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, as well as the Trump administration's promises to scale back regulations, the alternative investment industry doesn't foresee any lessening of current regulations or regulators»...

That Act would further restrict the Fed's 13 (3) lending operations by requiring that they be approved by at least two - thirds of the FOMC (as opposed to the present 5 - member requirement); by disallowing the use of equity as collateral for 13 (3) loans; by requiring that loans be approved not only by the Federal Reserve Board but by all Federal banking regulators having jurisdiction over the prospective borrowers; and by allowing emergency lending to be extended beyond a term of 30 days only by means of a joint resolution approved by Congress.

Fiber also acts as a natural hormone regulator.

Cinnamon in this bread also acts as a blood sugar regulator.

For example, vernix acts as a protective barrier, while in the uterus, from liquids, but it also acts as a skin cleanser, moisturizer, safe and natural antimicrobial, temperature regulator, and antioxidant for the newborn after delivery.

For example, vernix not only acts as a protective barrier, while in the uterus, from liquids but it also acts as a skin cleanser, moisturizer, safe and natural antimicrobial, temperature regulator, and antioxidant for the newborn after delivery.

By the time you are in the business of publishing newspapers you are capable of acting as a rational economic actor and deciding whether to pay regulator fees or take your chances with exemplary damages.

The emails - released by the CQC under the Freedom of Information Act following a request by Tory MP Steve Barclay - reveal how the regulator had concerns about Basildon since May 2009 but then rated the trust as «good» in the October.

Rho, found in many bacteria, acts as a protein regulator of bacterial gene expression, determining which genes get turned on or off.

Their findings, published in the June 16, 2015 issue of Immunity, pinpoint a protein degradation pathway, which acts as an oxygen sensor in many cell types, as a critical regulator of Treg cells» function.

The U.S. environmental regulator argued in court on Tuesday that its rule limiting mercury and hazardous air pollutants is «appropriate and necessary,» not an improper interpretation of the federal Clean Air Act as industry groups and some states contend.

Sifting through this mountain of data, the scientists found three key genes that were altered by the NOTCH1 mutation and also acted as master regulators, turning off the critical pathways that normally prevent inflammation and calcification.

Researchers from the Vetmeduni Vienna have now discovered that NK cells can switch and promote tumor growth, with STAT5 acting as the key regulator.

«How B cell metabolism is controlled: GSK3 acts as a metabolic checkpoint regulator in B cells.»

Even as European regulators act, however, scientists are divided on whether pollinators are exposed to enough of the pesticides to pose a grave threat to their colonies, in part because of a paucity of data and the challenges of doing rigorous field trials.

Regional, national, and European regulators play a critical role in guaranteeing vaccine quality, and act as facilitators by providing scientific advice to vaccine researchers.

They found decreased expression for almost all of the genes of cholesterol synthesis, including a gene called SREBP - 2, which acts as a master regulator for cholesterol production.

LKB1 acts as a key regulator of cell polarity as well as energy metabolism partly through the activation of the AMP - activated protein kinase (AMPK), a sensor that adapts energy supply to the nutrient demands of cells facing situations of metabolic stress.

This contradictory behavior explained that Cyclin D1 acts as a negative regulative protein under some conditions rather than a positive regulator in the cell cycle, i.e. the modest increase in Cyclin D1 expression could hasten the G1 phase while the overexpression may lead to block the progression through the S - phase [28, 29].

Several studies show that the Drosophila fat body senses dietary nutrition and acts as a central regulator of growth and metabolism [10,15,26,38,39].

Molecular analyses demonstrate that Bicc1 acts as a post-transcriptional regulator of Polycystin - 2, one of the genes mutated in human forms of PKD.

Here, we show that the peripheral tissue - derived peptide hormone CCHamide - 2 (CCHa2) acts as a nutrient - dependent regulator of Drosophila insulin - like peptides (Dilps).

Western blot analysis showed that phosphoinositide - dependent protein kinase 1, the upstream kinase that phosphorylates Akt, and several phosphatases (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10, protein phosphatase 1, and protein phosphatase 2A), known as negative regulators of the PI3K / Akt signaling pathway, were unchanged upon VPA treatment (Supplemental Fig. 4E), indicating that VPA might act on Akt directly.

Using fruit flies as our initial models, we are identifying which microRNAs are acting as genetic regulators of stress responses in neural tissues.

And that additional water vapour would in turn cause further warming - this being a positive feedback, in which carbon dioxide acts as a direct regulator of temperature, and is then joined in that role by more water vapour as temperatures increase.

This indicates that pH and PKAc1 act as balancing regulators of cGMP metabolism to control egress.

The researchers found that the ability to control gene activity allows Ikaros to act as a master regulator of the function of blood cells.

The heterotrimeric AMP - activated protein kinase (AMPK) is an evolutionarily conserved serine / threonine kinase that acts as a critical regulator of cellular energy balance.

This mechanism acts as a master regulator of gene expression, directing a cell's response to developmental and environmental cues.

Progesterone would not act as a conventional hypnotic (i.e. it would not induce artificial sleepiness), but it would rather act as a «physiologic» regulator.»

Two hormonal regulators which have been studied are leptin and ghrelin, whose effects on energy balance are in a large part mediated by the hypothalamus.87 Leptin, a peptide hormone secreted by adipose tissue, acts to reduce appetite.87 Circulating levels are proportional to adiposity and so decline during weight - loss, thus increasing appetite, however this reduction is believed to be disproportionately greater than the change in fat - mass.82 As expected, IER (60 - 85 % ER on restricted days) weight - loss interventions have all noted a decline in leptin levels 39, 41, 46 - 49, 52, comparable with energy - matched CER protocols after three months 48 and six months.41

(4) Adaptogens act as cortisol regulators, and have specifically been shown to increase cortisol production if low, or lower it if it is elevated.

That being said, the dietician didn't seem to be very credible, she didn't even know that strawberries and cassia cinnamon act as sugar regulators.