and NPRM). More than five years have passed since the Commission sought comment on several important matters relating to the quality and implementation of closed captioning of video programming, and a variety of changes in the closed captioning landscape warrant a refresh of the record created in response to that proceeding. For example, the benchmarks for 100% captioning of nonexempt new Engli...

Bank supervision and monetary policy are strategic concepts in the economy of countries. Development of electronic communications, especially in online and international spheres, has largely threatened financial services in view of security and illegal access to banking networks. Anonymity and identity theft has endangered electronic commerce by crimes like phishing, fraud and different types...

AIM To determine the hospital autopsy rate for the UK in 2013. METHODS A study of data from a 'Freedom of Information' request to all (n=186) acute NHS Trusts within England (n=160), NHS Boards in Scotland (n=14) and Wales (n=7) and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland (n=5). Hospital autopsy rates were calculated from the number of hospital autopsies performed in 2013 as a percentage of to...

The type locality of the slipper spurge Euphorbia conzattii has been in doubt because the 1917 type is a mixed collection with vague label data. In recent field work, the species was found on Cerro Espino, Pochutla District, Oaxaca, Mexico. We used the Method for Evaluation of Risk of Extinction for Mexican Wild Species (MER), required to protect a species under Mexican law, to assess the conse...

The present study is an attempt to evaluate the Conservation PriorityIndex (CPI) of species, habitats, and communities for their conservation andmanagement planning in Kashmir Himalayas India. isan prioritize 361 plant 18 (10 within theforest zone 08 alpine zone), 07 habitats conservationplanning. Out total species recorded, 06 were categorizedas critically endangered, 20 28 vulnerable, 98 tobe...

Listing endangered and threatened species under the US Endangered Species Act is presumed to offer a defense against extinction and a solution to achieve recovery of imperiled populations, but only if effective conservation action ensues after listing occurs. The amount of government funding available for species protection and recovery is one of the best predictors of successful recovery; howe...

Infectious disease is listed among the top five causes of global species extinctions. However, the majority of available data supporting this contention is largely anecdotal. We used the IUCN Red List of Threatened and Endangered Species and literature indexed in the ISI Web of Science to assess the role of infectious disease in global species loss. Infectious disease was listed as a contributi...

Global climate change is affecting the distribution of marine species and is thought to represent a threat to biodiversity. Previous studies project expansion of species range for some species and local extinction elsewhere under climate change. Such range shifts raise concern for species whose long-term persistence is already threatened by other human disturbances such as fishing. However, few...