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Regional bank
A regional bank is a mid-sized depository institution that takes deposits and makes loans within a defined region, sitting between community banks and the largest national banks.
Regional bee faunas
Regional bee faunas are the sets of bee species recorded from a continent, country, or island group, a framework set out by Charles Michener in 1979.
Regional Bell Operating Company
A Regional Bell Operating Company, or RBOC, is one of seven regional companies created in 1984 when AT&T divested its local telephone companies, nicknamed Baby Bells.
Regional branches and scientific centres of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The regional branches and scientific centers of the USSR Academy of Sciences were dispersed research complexes outside Moscow and Leningrad, beginning with the Ural branch in 1932.
Regional brittle star faunas and endemism
Regional brittle star faunas are the distinct ophiuroid assemblages of particular seas and depth zones, with 64% of the class's 2,064 species endemic to one region.
Regional bryophyte checklist
A regional bryophyte checklist summarizes the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts of a country, province, or group of countries, based on traceable herbarium specimens; Europe's 2019 checklist counts 1,892 species.
Regional Censorates (xing yushitai)
Regional Censorates (行御史台) were regional branches of the Yuan dynasty's Censorate; the principal Jiangnan censorate, the Southern Taifu, impeached corrupt officials and audited local archives.
Regional chemotherapy
Regional chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that delivers anticancer drugs directly into the arteries supplying a tumor region, concentrating drug exposure while limiting toxicity to the rest of the body.
Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs
Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs) is a US Department of Energy program funding regional hydrogen networks with up to $7 billion; seven hubs in 16 states were selected in 2023.
Regional climate model
A regional climate model (RCM) is a limited-area atmospheric model driven at its edges by a global climate model, downscaling coarse global projections into regional detail for climate studies.
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free trade agreement among the ten ASEAN members plus Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea, in force since 2022.
Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers
The Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers (Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana, CROM) was Mexico's first national labor confederation, founded in Saltillo, Coahuila, in 1918 and led by Luis N. Morones.
Regional Container Lines
Regional Container Lines (宏海箱運集團), or RCL, is a Thai container shipping line that began as a Bangkok–Singapore feeder operator in 1979 and listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 1988.
Regional Diptera faunas: checklists and multi-region compendia
Regional Diptera fauna lists are published inventories of the fly species recorded from a defined country or region, compiled from literature, museum specimens, and field surveys.
Regional distribution of oomycete plant pathogens
The regional distribution of oomycete plant pathogens covers which water molds and downy mildews are officially recorded or regulated by region, using EPPO lists and phytosanitary records.
Regional distribution of Polytrichaceae
The Polytrichaceae, or haircap mosses, are a family of about 200 to 260 species in 17 to 22 genera, found in all climatic zones except the lowland tropics.
Regional distribution of Pteridaceae
Pteridaceae, the maidenhair and brake fern family, is a near-cosmopolitan family of roughly 1,000 to 1,200 species, most diverse in the tropics and deserts, with Brazil holding 207 species.
Regional diversity of asilomorph flies
The regional diversity of asilomorph flies surveys species counts of robber flies, bee flies, and stiletto flies across regions, drawn from national and continental checklists.
Regional diversity of jumping spiders
The regional diversity of jumping spiders surveys how the family's more than 5,000 species spread across continents and islands, with China and Brazil holding the largest national faunas.
Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law
The Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law (民族区域自治法) is China's basic law implementing regional ethnic autonomy, letting minority areas govern through autonomous organs; adopted in 1984 and amended in 2001.
Regional faunas of paper wasps (Polistes)
Regional faunas of paper wasps (Polistes) describes how the genus's species are distributed worldwide: 93 in the New World, 76 in Asia, and 17 in the West Palaearctic.
Regional faunas of scolioid and velvet ant wasps
The regional faunas of scolioid and velvet ant wasps describe how four wasp lineages, including Scoliidae and Mutillidae (velvet ants), are distributed worldwide, with thynnids dominating Australia and velvet ants the Americas.
Regional faunas of spider wasps
The regional faunas of spider wasps (Pompilidae) differ sharply in size and composition: 4,856 described species worldwide, with the Neotropical realm alone holding about 20%.
Regional faunas of yellowjackets
Regional faunas of yellowjackets compares the about 50 Vespula species worldwide across North America, Europe, and East Asia, including the German yellowjacket's spread as an introduced pest.
Regional fern floras
Regional fern floras are systematic written treatments of the fern and lycophyte species of a defined area, summarizing their classification, distribution, and endemism so plants can be identified.
Regional Fish Institute, Ltd.
Regional Fish Institute is a Japanese food-tech startup founded in Kyoto in 2019 that uses genome editing to breed farmed fish, launching the world's first genome-edited animal foods in 2021.
Regional football association
A regional football association is a sub-national governing body for association football under a national federation, organizing and sanctioning the game in a region such as a prefecture or province.
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a cooperative cap-and-invest program of eleven U.S. states that caps and reduces carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector.
Regional Health Planning
Regional health planning: coordinated planning of health resources at a regional or multi-state level (MeSH D012040, 1977). Central to US health policy 1950s-1980s via Hill-Burton, CHP, NHPRDA, and CON review; ended in failure, survives in regional health authorities abroad.
Regional holothuroid faunas
Regional holothuroid faunas are the assemblages of sea cucumber species in a biogeographic region, richest on tropical Indo-Pacific reefs and dominant in deep-sea biomass, where they can reach 95% of benthic communities.