Wild card

The Importance of “Wild Card” Scenarios

Taming The Wild Card for Mobile Payment

Mobile wallets promise to allow people to easily manage their accounts and to carry less cards. However, the slow adoption of contactless point of sales (POS) terminals by merchants limits the potential of Near-Field Communication (NFC) based payment devices. In this paper, we discuss Wild Card, a secure and backward compatible way to make mobile payment through conventional magnetic stripe bas...

Wild Card Queries for Searching Resources on the Web

We propose a domain-independent framework for searching and retrieving facts and relationships within natural language text sources. In this framework, an extraction task over a text collection is expressed as a query that combines text fragments with wild cards, and the query result is a set of facts in the form of unary, binary and general n-ary tuples. A significance of our querying mechanis...

Generic warfarin: a cost-effective alternative to brand-name drug or a clinical wild card?

W arfarin sodium is a highly effective drug for the prevention of thromboembolism in a wide variety of cardiovascular conditions. Marked individual variability in the response of the hemostatic system and the potential for significant interaction with other drugs mandates careful and regular monitoring of patients who receive warfarin. In the past decade, several clinical trials have demonstrat...

Health Care Reform’s Wild Card: the Uncertain Effectiveness of Comparative Effectiveness Research

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) stands out as the intriguing wild card of health care reform. CER compares competing treatments against each other to determine which interventions work best, supplying critical information for medical decisionmaking and health policy. If CER works as planned, it may be one of the few reform measures in the final health care legislation that could flatte...