Nowadays, many bank cards are smart cards (i.e. integrated-circuit cards) based on the EMV specifications for payment systems. This paper specifies how biometric on-card verification can be integrated into EMV debit and credit cards in a backwards-compatible way. The biometric verification does not change the EMV transaction flow outside the cardholder-verification step. The proposed payment sy...

Yu-Chung Kung1,2, Wen-Yeh Hsieh3*, Sen Sun4, Yu-Chen Chen5 1Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, 2Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei, 3Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Hsinchu Branch, Hsinchu, and Departments of 4Cardiovascular Surgery and 5Pathology, Mackay Memorial Hosp...

Corresponding author: Jerzy W. Mituś MD, PhD Department of Surgical Oncology Centre of Oncology Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Institute Krakow Branch 11 Garncarska St 31-115 Krakow, Poland Phone: +48 12 422 49 28 Fax: +48 12 423 10 76 E-mail: [email protected] 1 Department of Surgical Oncology, Centre of Oncology, Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Institute, Krakow, Poland 2 Department of A...

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is an atypical bacterium that causes respiratory illnesses in humans, including pharyngitis, tracheobronchitis, and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). It has also been directly linked to reactive airway disease, asthma, and extrapulmonary pathologies. During its colonization, M. pneumoniae expresses a unique ADP-ribosylating and vacuolating cytotoxin designated community-...