Electronic transaction systems

Below is an excerpt from the first few pages of the Scient report that provides an interesting overview of the electronic transaction systems available at the time. The rest of the report gives in exhaustive detail each e-bond provider s current and proposed offering, system type, availability, funding information, trading activity, revenue strategy, and customers. From this excerpt, however, note the number of e-bond companies in the industry just two years ago—most of whom you will not likely see in the future. 

Interdealer systems allow dealers electronically to execute transactions with other dealers through the fully anonymous services of brokers brokers. A number of interdealer brokers have introduced or plan to introduce electronic transaction systems that will allow dealers anonymously to execute transactions in securities through proprietary net-... 

The concept of a "secure" prescription form was expanded by the federal government in 2008 to all prescriptions written for Medicaid patients. Any prescription for a Medicaid patient must be written on a security form if the pharmacist is to be compensated for the prescription service. In turn, the use of "triplicate" prescription forms was eliminated and replaced with an online electronic transmission system whereby orders for Schedule II and Schedule III prescriptions are transmitted to a company that acts as a repository for these transactions. In California, it is called the CURES program (Controlled Substances Utilization Review and Evaluation System). Additional information about CURES may be found at http //ag. ca. gov/bne/tri ps. ph p. 

Decision-support systems, wherein transactions are screened according to a set of rules, add an additional layer of value to transactional systems. To be effective, such systems require that rules be invoked in real time and draw on data relevant to the transaction. For example, a drug order may be contraindicated based on allergies, or a laboratory order may be contraindicated by the results of previous tests or applicability in the context of the patient s condition as recorded in the electronic chart. The implementation of decision-support tectoology requires significant effort in the development of acceptable rules and the processing power to process them in real time. 

Debit cards have a magnetic strip that contains information about a beneficiary s account. They can be used to withdraw cash from ATMs or to process purchases from POS machines. Each time a card is used, the stipulated amount is deducted from the cardholder s bank account. As these are electronic transactions, they are less costly than over-the-counter transactions at local banks, but as a debit card must be linked to a bank account, the account fees may cancel all or some of these savings (Lafaurie and Velasquez Leiva 2004). As debit cards require the use of ATMs or POS machines connected to telephone lines, this system may not provide adequate geographic coverage, as the high capital costs mean that equipment will only be installed where it is used frequently enough to make it profitable however, networks of ATMs and POS machines are expanding rapidly in many countries (Ivatury 2006). At the same time, beneficiaries may find them difficult to understand or use. 

There are five key types of e-business application systems that enable businesses to trade and conduct electronic transactions or communications. These are ... 

D. Lerro and Y. Bar-Shalom, Tracking with debiased consistent converted measurements versus EKF , IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 1015-1022, July 1993. 

Xu Xiaojian and R. M. Narayanan, FOPEN SAR imaging using UWB step-frequency and random noise waveforms , IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Volume 37, Issue 4, Oct. 2001, pp. 1287-1300. 

Ritcey, J. A. Censored mean-level detector analysis, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, AES-22, 3 (July 1986), pp. 443-454, 1986. 

Protocol analysis. Protocol analysis is the process of capturing, decoding, and interpreting electronic traffic. The protocol analysis method of network intrusion detection involves the analysis of data captured during transactions between two or more systems or devices, and the evaluation of these data to identify unusual activity and potential problems. Once a problem is isolated and recorded, problems or potential threats can be linked to pieces of hardware or software. Sophisticated protocol analysis will also provide statistics and trend information on the captured traffic. 

Frydman, M.. A. Levy, and S. E. Miller. Oxidant measurements in the vicinity of energized 765 kV lines, pp. 1141-1147. In IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, May-June, 1973. 

A microscopic theory for describing ultrafast radiationless transitions in particular for, photo-induced ultrafast radiationless transitions is presented. For this purpose, one example system that well represents the ultrafast radiationless transaction problem is considered. More specifically, bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) are investigated for their ultrafast electronic-excitation energy transfer (EET) processes and ultrafast electron transfer (ET) processes. Several applications of the density matrix method are presented for emphasizing that the density matrix method can not only treat the dynamics due to the radiationless transitions but also deal with the population and coherence dynamics. Several rate constants of the radiationless transitions and the analytic estimation methods of those rate... 

Gopinath R etal, 2004, Development of a Low Cost Fuel Cell Inverter System with DSP Control. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 19(5), September, 1. 

Artwork needs to be agreed upon between the pharmaceutical, medical device, or healthcare company and the marketing organization. Traditionally this has been achieved using fax and/or e-mail attachments. More recently the Intranet and Internet has been used to facihtate such transactions in conjunction with electronic document management systems (EDMS). 

Werner, M.R. Fahmer, W.R., 2001, Review on Materials, Microsensors, Systems and Devices for High-temperature and Harsh-environment Applications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 48, No.2, pp.249-257... 

At the time this book is being written, the most current Intel processor is the Pentium III. It was released in 1999 and uses the same SECC connector as its predecessor, the Pentium II. It included 70 new instructions and was optimized for voice recognition and multimedia. Aside from faster speeds, one of the more significant features of the Pentium III was the processor serial number (PSN), a unique number electronically encoded into the processor. This number can be used to uniquely identify a system during Internet transactions. As you can imagine, Internet privacy advocates had a field day with this feature. 

Thioesters are another group of substances that could have played a key role in primitive energy transactions. We have seen how these substances are uniquely involved in both group and electron transfers and in phosphorylation processes that are associated with some of the most primordial metabolic reactions and do not, unlike those dependent on protonmotive force, require complex membrane-embedded systems. We have also seen how my hypothetical multimers could have arisen from the thioesters of amino acids (see above). These facts and others have led to my proposal of a thioester world (1998). 

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