Humans evaluate the acceptability of behavior using social norms and regulate behavior by means of social control.

The latest research indicates that exposure to these substances can upset the body's ability to regulate hormone production, damage reproduction, and can cause liver and kidney defects.

" The authors ’ research supports the hypothesis that “ known defects provisions ,” used by US states ( e. g., Wisconsin ) to regulate used car sales have been ineffectual, because the quality of used vehicles sold in these states is not significantly better than the vehicles in neighboring states without such consumer protection legislation.

For example, diodes are used to regulate voltage ( Zener diodes ), to protect circuits from high voltage surges ( avalanche diodes ), to electronically tune radio and TV receivers ( varactor diodes ), to generate radio frequency oscillations ( tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, IMPATT diodes ), and to produce light ( light emitting diodes ).

The integumentary system has a variety of functions ; it may serve to waterproof, cushion, and protect the deeper tissues, excrete wastes, and regulate temperature, and is the attachment site for sensory receptors to detect pain, sensation, pressure, and temperature.

The article imposes a duty on the government to protect against a threat to privacy posed by a possible abuse of databases ( subarticle 2 ); and to regulate the right of persons to be informed about the content of such databases concerning their person and the right to improve possible mistakes in such content ( subarticle 3 ).

In many countries, a professional institute, comprising members of the professional community, exists in order to protect the standing of the profession and promote its interests, and sometimes also regulate the practice of landscape architecture.

The NRC's mission is to regulate the nation's civilian use of byproduct, source, and special nuclear materials to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, to promote the common defense and security, and to protect the environment.

In 1984, the FTC began to regulate the funeral home industry in order to protect consumers from deceptive practices.

Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One ( section 8 ), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment.

This was part of a larger pattern of royal protection, as laws were promulgated to protect their property, forbid attempts to reconvert them, and regulate the behavior of the conversos themselves, preventing their cohabitation or even dining with Jews, lest they convert back.

* Second, Congress is empowered to regulate and protect the instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in Interstate Commerce, even though the threat may come only from intrastate activities ;

By a 5 – 4 vote, the Supreme Court rejected the argument that the law was necessary to protect the health of bakers, deciding it was a labor law attempting to regulate the terms of employment, and calling it an " unreasonable, unnecessary and arbitrary interference with the right and liberty of the individual to contract.

The Ordinances of The Clothworkers ’ Company, first issued in 1532 and signed by Sir Thomas More, sought to regulate clothworking, to maintain standards and to protect approved practices.

Originally the Company was created in order to regulate and control the importation of cheap playing cards, to protect the card makers and their families, and to maintain quality.

" Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to define their own food and agriculture ; to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development objectives ; to determine the extent to which they want to be self reliant ; to restrict the dumping of products in their markets ; and to provide local fisheries-based communities the priority in managing the use of and the rights to aquatic resources.

The reason why they regulate chain stores is to protect independent businesses from competition.

He also describes how innovators are hampered both the uncertainty in the law and the content industry's attempt to use to law to regulate the internet in an attempt to protect their interests.

The State of California created a state commission, the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, in 1965 to protect San Francisco Bay and regulate development near its shores.

" At the time he became acutely ill with the disease, he was on his way to address the Oregon state legislature on the subject of the need to regulate trucks in order to protect the condition of highways, and was hoping to follow this with a similar address to the Washington legislature.

In the beginning of the nineteenth century the armies of Napoleon started to regulate prostitution in the Netherlands ( in 1810 ) to protect soldiers against venereal diseases.

ASIC's role is to enforce and regulate company and financial services laws to protect Australian consumers, investors and creditors.

* The evolved responses that enable individuals to protect, heal and recuperate themselves from infections and injuries such as immunity, fever, and sickness behavior, and the processes that regulate their deployment to maximize fitness.

In 1986, the General Principles of Civil Law was adopted to protect the lawful civil rights and interests of citizens and legal persons, and to correctly regulate civil relations.

The primary function of the wastegate is to regulate the maximum boost pressure in turbocharger systems, to protect the engine and the turbocharger.

Though Chinese rulers had traditionally sought to regulate organized religion and the CPC would continue the practice, Chinese Christians had gained experience in the art of accommodation in order to protect its members.

* regulate the commercial space transportation industry, only to the extent necessary to ensure compliance with international obligations of the United States and to protect the public health and safety, safety of property, and national security and foreign policy interest of the United States ;

At the end of the meeting, the industrialists agreed to give Hoover the power " to regulate hours and wave lengths of operation of stations when such action is necessary to prevent interference detrimental to the public good ".

Some sailing ships use traditional ship's bells to tell the time and regulate the watch system, with the bell being rung once for every half hour into the watch and rung eight times at watch end ( a four-hour watch ).

In 2000 a new Article 99a was inserted, that law has to regulate civil defence ; the older legal system regulating this issue had been largely abolished since the end of the Cold War.

The ruling prevailed until the end of the 1930s, when the court took a different position on the national government's power to regulate the economy.

Montaigne's brief essay " On sumptuary laws " criticized 16th-century French laws, beginning, " The way by which our laws attempt to regulate idle and vain expenses in meat and clothes, seems to be quite contrary to the end designed ... For to enact that none but princes shall eat turbot, shall wear velvet or gold lace, and interdict these things to the people, what is it but to bring them into a greater esteem, and to set every one more agog to eat and wear them?

The last Yuan ruler Toghan Temur ( r. 1333 – 70 ) was powerless to regulate those troubles because the empire had nearly reached its end.

Milton ’ s point is that licensing books cannot possibly prevent societal corruption ( it is “ far insufficient to the end which it intends "), so there is no viable stopping point: “ If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes ...” Finally, Milton also points out that if there are even licensers fit for making these judgments, then the possibility of error in licensing books is still great, and the amount of time the job would take is impractical.

It extends to those activities intrastate which so affect interstate commerce, or the exertion of the power of Congress over it, as to make regulation of them appropriate means to the attainment of a legitimate end, the effective execution of the granted power to regulate interstate commerce.

To that end, many governments and private groups have made efforts to regulate heavily the use of mercury, or to issue advisories about its use.

The Minister of Agriculture was given powers to regulate the cultivation and management of land, end tenancies, even take possession of land, under the Defence of the Realm regulations.

To this end, the Bank was authorized to set rediscount ratios ( the main policy tool ), regulate money markets and the circulation of money, execute Treasury operations, and take measures related to the stability of the Turkish currency.

Leagues did not desire to end the vocal support of fans, but learned that they would have to regulate artificial noise made by electronics, horns, bells, and the like, to make game play tolerable.

Kinetochore proteins and proteins binding to MTs (+) end ( collectivelly called + TIPs ) regulate kinetochore movement through the kMTs (+) end dynamics regulation.

Traffic signals are commonly installed at the end of the exit ramp to regulate the freeway traffic flowing onto the arterial.

Like the sprinkler at the end of a hose, this can be twisted to regulate the flow of the beer.

In 2004, MPP provided the majority of funding for an initiative to regulate marijuana in Alaska, which failed with 44 % of the vote ( but still set what was at the time the record for the largest vote to end marijuana prohibition in any state ).

In November 2006, MPP ’ s high-profile ballot initiative to tax and regulate marijuana in Nevada received 44 % of the vote, tying with Alaska for the then all-time largest vote ever to end marijuana prohibition in a state.

In 1935, Johnston passed the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law to regulate the sale of alcohol in the state following the end of national prohibition.

Hugman endorsed the bypass channel idea ( which would be completed later that year ) but, instead of paving over the bend, Hugman suggested 1 ) a flood gate at the northern ( upstream ) end of the bend, 2 ) a small dam at the southern ( downstream ) end of the bend, and 3 ) a tainter gate in the channel to regulate flow.

To this end, the agency was given the authority to regulate and license those who manufacture, sell or serve alcohol.

Its activities were largely restricted to peacefully distributing flyers and attempting to regulate the 1954 Majlis elections ( which in the end were rigged in favor of the pro-Shah candidates ).