Payment systems play a significant role in our daily lives. They are an important driver of economic activities and a vital part of the banking infrastructure of any country. Several current payment systems focus on security and reliability but pay less attention to users' needs and behaviors. For example, people may share their bankcards with friends or relatives to withdraw money for various ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effects of risk and payment on subjects' willingness to participate, and to examine how payment influences subjects' potential behaviours and risk evaluations. METHODS A 3 (level of risk) x 3 (level of monetary payment), between subjects, completely randomised factorial design was used. Students enrolled at one of five US pharmacy schools read a recruitment notice ...

In this paper, we consider the protocol which prevents the service provider from finding out which customer have bought what kind of contents by the unlinkability between the payment and user-profile information. Besides, we do not employ any kind of anonymous payment system causing more computation complexities and overheads to the network, and our approach can be easily applied into the curre...

health tourism is a form of travel in addition to recreation, leisure, comfort, health and medical care as well. this paper aims to assess the state of health tourism in the city of mashhad, from the perspective of foreign tourists, identify weaknesses in health tourism and health tourism adsorption process and provide medical services to foreign patients in mashhad compilation.research methods...

Loyalty program is a marketing effort by the merchant to keep customers loyal to their stores. It tries to keep track of the purchasing-behavior of a customer by recording customer’s purchase information, including his credit card number, as a key identifier to the customer. While it may benefit the customer, the drawback is that the privacy of the customer is intruded. If the customer is using...

Classic direct mechanisms suffer from the drawback of requiring full type (or utility function) revelation from participating agents. In complex settings with multi-attribute utility, assessing utility functions can be very difficult, a problem addressed by recent work on preference elicitation. In this work we propose a framework for incremental, partial revelation mechanisms and study the use...

This poster proposes a secure e-payment architecture for online shopping protecting users’ privacy. Introduction. Online shopping is becoming more and more interesting for customers because of the ease of use and the large choice of products. A vast amount of sensitive information is transferred during such online payment transactions what involves privacy problems. Current e-payment schemes, s...

OBJECTIVES Community-based health insurance (CBI) is a common mechanism to generate financial resources for health care in developing countries. We review for the first time provider payment methods used in CBI in developing countries and their impact on CBI performance. METHODS We conducted a systematic review of the literature on provider payment methods used by CBI in developing countries ...

Background: This paper is an effort to analyze cashless payment vs Conventional system in India. The current study focuses on the challenges and threats faced by Indian consumer while using digital money. highlights buying patter of context conventional system. Methods: In theoretical model constructed reviewing different journals based as well evaluates factor effecting purchase decision light...

background provincial health accounts (pha) as a subset of national health accounts (nha) present financial information for health sectors. it leads to a logical decision making for policy-makers in order to achieve health system goals, especially fair financial contribution (ffc). this study aimed to examine health accounts in kerman province.   methods the present analytical study was carried...