Payment Card Systems in Europe: Convergence or Disappearance? [PDF]
This article provides a descriptive overview of the payment card industry in Europe and compares the various forms of organization of payment card systems in European countries. This synthesis helps to understand the paradoxes and the challenges entailed
Marianne VERDIER
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Abstract Objective Epilepsy is a common condition associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and costs. Poor documentation of seizures is a major challenge in epilepsy care. Objective seizure counting with mobile devices may mitigate this challenge and improve patient management.
Matthew McWilliam +8 more
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Heartland Payment Systems: lessons learned from a data breach [PDF]
On August 13, 2009, the Payment Cards Center hosted a workshop examining the changing nature of data security in consumer electronic payments. The center invited the chairman and CEO of Heartland Payment Systems (HPS or Heartland), Robert (Bob) Carr, to ...
Julia S. Cheney
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Aplikasi Smart Card Pada Meteran Air Digital Prabayar Berbasis Arduino Mega 2560 [PDF]
Adhila Rafik, Yuniarto, in paper smart card application in prepaid digital water meter based on arduino mega 2560 explain that water is a daily necessity, to get a decent clean water to be used, we can use the services of the service taps to get water ...
Rafik, A. (Adhila) +1 more
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Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
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Interchange fees in Australia, the UK, and the United States : matching theory and practice [PDF]
Interchange fees are an integral part of the pricing structure of credit and debit card industries. While in recent years the theoretical literature on interchange fees, and payment cards in general, has grown rapidly, the empirical literature has not ...
Fumiko Hayashi, Stuart E. Wiener
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Characteristics, Motivators, and Enablers of Educators Who Earn Many Micro‐Credentials
ABSTRACT This study explores the characteristics, motivators, and enablers of US educators, who earned more than ten micro‐credentials. Although research exists on attitudes and motivators associated with educators newly engaging with micro‐credentials, it lacks insights into learners earning many micro‐credentials.
Marilys Galindo +1 more
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The electronification of transit fare payments: Examining the case for partnership the case for partnerships between payments firms and transit agencies [PDF]
Several of the nation’s largest payment-card-issuing banks are working with public transit agencies to enable consumers to pay fares by using payment cards, and more such partnerships may be on the horizon.
Philip Keitel
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Nowcasting World Trade With Machine Learning: A Three‐Step Approach
ABSTRACT We nowcast world trade using machine learning, distinguishing between tree‐based methods (random forest and gradient boosting) and their linear‐regression‐based counterparts (macroeconomic random forest and gradient boosting—linear). While much less used in the literature, the latter are found to outperform not only the tree‐based techniques ...
Menzie Chinn +2 more
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Standardized Payment Procedures as Key Enabling Factor for Mobile Commerce [PDF]
Companies are not going to invest into the development of innovative applications or services unless these can be charged for appropriately. Thus, the existence of standardized and widely accepted mobile payment procedures is crucial for successful ...
Kreyer, Nina +2 more
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