The field of medical informatics comprises many subdisciplines, united by a common interest in the establishment of standards to facilitate the sharing, reuse, and understanding of information. This work depends in large part on the ability of controlled medical terminologies to represent relevant concepts. This work augments a controlled terminology to provide not only standardized content, bu...

i Acknowledgements I would like to thank to Prof.Dr.Gunter Saake for his support and confidence in me and allowing me to work on master thesis in his group. Thank you! I would like thank to my senior supervisor, Dipl.-Inform. Marko Rosenmueller and Dipl.-Inform. Norbert Siegmund, for their encouragement, guidance, fruitful discussions and many other helps. Without their full support, this thesi...

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To date, little research has examined participants' understandings of insults. We examine (potentially) derogatory talk and its consequences in interactions on Twitter, considering instances the Twitter feed one high-profile user. Discourse analysis identifies four forms response to attempted insults: (1) ascribing category membership first contributor, (2) taking up contributor self-identifica...

Not too much to read from me this week! This began as a comprehensive overhaul of my prospectus, and now has been pared back to the most basic elements of my “puzzle” and theory. (It’s never a good sign when you delete more from the document than you add in any given sitting.) I would appreciate your feedback on the motivation, initial theoretical insight, and potential steps toward formally mo...

Shall our state legislature be allowed to take that which is not their own, to turn it from its original use, and apply it to such ends or purposes as they, in their discretion, shall see fit? Sir, you may destroy this little institution; it is weak; it is in your hands! You may put it out, but if you do, you must carry on your work! You must extinguish, one after another, all those great light...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank Dr. Kathleen Brown for her wisdom and guidance during throughout the process of this paper. Thank you for being my teacher, thesis reader, friend and so much more! It is from your child development class that I learned the most about children and became truly inspired to be a teacher. I would also like to thank my family. Dad, you have set a wonderful exam...

To Sophie: You are the love of my life and have made me happier than I ever thought possible. You mean everything to me. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me? Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisor Stephen Clark for his continued support throughout my time at Oxford. It was his assistance and guidance that made this thesis possible. I would also like to ...