Motivational interviewing (MI) is a goal oriented psychotherapy involving natural conversation between a counselor and a client to instill motivation towards behavioral change in the client. Often during such an interaction, the counselor and client express themselves through nonverbal cues such as laughter. We analyze the role of laughters during MI sessions. Specifically, we perform a set of ...

LEI WEI: Privacy-preserving Regular-Expression Evaluation on Encrypted Data (Under the direction of Michael K. Reiter) Motivated by the need to outsource file storage to untrusted clouds while still permitting controlled use of that data by authorized third parties, in this dissertation we present a family of protocols by which a client can evaluate a regular expression on an encrypted file sto...

The alpha isoform of human 90-kDa heat shock protein (HSP90alpha) is composed of three domains: the N-terminal (residues 1-400); middle (residues 401-615) and C-terminal (residues 621-732). The middle domain is simultaneously associated with the N- and C-terminal domains, and the interaction with the latter mediates the dimeric configuration of HSP90. Besides one in the N-terminal domain, an ad...

Occupational therapy is now consistently described as a profession concerned with enabling occupation. A crucial step in enabling occupation is understanding the occupational performance of our clients. Dynamic Performance Analysis (DPA) is a new approach to occupational analysis that focuses on the client's actual performance. DPA, acknowledging that optimal performance is the product of the i...

A client was experiencing trust and information quality problems in his structured Internet communication with potential and existing customers. Customer information entered online was typically of very poor quality and a lot of effort had to be exerted to cleanse the data before it incurred costs (such as printing and sending physical mail, etc.). Additionally, the interaction with clients, bo...

«Schiz” is a Latinized word-forming element that means split, division or cleavage. In German, the word schizoid, turned up in 1920’s meaning «resembling schizophrenia”, from combination of (gr.) schiz + oeides, «like”, form eidos, shape. The Betrayal Body, Language and Bioenergetics, Dr. Lowen’s works most thoroughly teach us his views about schizoid character structure, it becomes evident sto...

One of the most critical driving forces in the evolution of interfaces on the Internet has been the logging built into common Web servers and the decade-long deployment of analytics based upon this data source. Page-view logging has slowly moved to callback systems using client-side scripting to capture more aspects of the user experience. With the rise of JavaScript-based client-side interacti...