In March 2020, the Reserve Bank of India's guidelines on Payment Aggregators and Gateways prohibited merchants from storing data cards used by customers. This paper argues that a total prohibition card storage is problematic as it affects ease transactions for consumers, effectively tilts consumer preference towards other payment instruments. runs risk technological choices in industry being ma...

* This work has been supported by NSF grant MIP-9630096 Abstract In this paper we consider the problem of deadlock-free wormhole unicast routing in networks with irregular topologies. To prevent deadlocks, for each router some input/output pairs (turns) have to be prohibited. We analyze the problem of minimizing the number of prohibited turns for providing deadlock-free routing. A new algorithm...

objectives: considering the increasing prevalence of depression in modern societies and the positive effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on depression, this study aims to investigate the omega-3 and omega-6 content of various foodstuffs, prescribed or prohibited by iranian traditional medicine (itm). materials and methods: firstly, reliable sources of iranian traditional medicine wer...

Prohibition voices supported their cause through community events as well as public speeches and political debates between 1929 and 1933, the last years before the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Many activists and average citizens continued to believe in Prohibition with a social, moral, or economic reasoning. Although no Carrie Nations had re-emerged, Prohibition still possessed strong su...

According to the Act on Counteracting Drug Addiction (20-th of March, 2009, Dz. U. Nr 63 poz. 520.) the list of federally prohibited plants in Poland was expanded to include 16 new species. Until that time the only illegal plant materials were cannabis, papaver, coca and most of their products. The actual list of herbal narcotics includes species which significantly influence on the central ner...

Ecosystem services are important foundations to realize the sustainable development of economy and society. The question of how to quantitatively evaluate ecosystem services in a scientific way is a hot topic among international researchers. Studying the spatial characteristics of ecosystem services in arid regions can provide the theoretical and practical basis for coordinating a sustainable m...