The use of emoji in digital communication can convey a wealth of emotions and concepts that otherwise would take many words to express. Emoji have become a popular form of communication, with researchers claiming emoji represent a type of “ubiquitous language” that can span different languages. In this paper however, we explore how emoji are also used in highly personalised and purposefully sec...

When you come into my hospital room, you need to know the facts of my life that there is information not contained in my hospital chart that I am 40 years married, with 4 children and 4 grandchildren that I am "genetically Lutheran"... with gut disease, like Luther himself that I am a professor that I teach teachers, priests, sisters how to nurture faith in the next generation that I love earth...

Thank you and love you. iii Acknowledgements My thesis advisor, Dr. Shengru Tu, has been an invaluable help throughout my computer science career. If it was not for his advice and guidance, I would not have been able to finish this thesis. I greatly thank him for always encouraging me to strive to be the best. I would like to thank Dr. Adlai DePano and Dr. Vassil Roussev for being a part of my ...

In wondering the things that you should do, reading can be a new choice of you in making new things. It's always said that reading will always help you to overcome something to better. Yeah, if i could change the world is one that we always offer. Even we share again and again about the books, what's your conception? If you are one of the people love reading as a manner, you can find if i could...

2000 iii ACKNOWLEDGMENT I am very grateful to my parents for their endless love and encouragement. I am deeply grateful to my wife for her love, understanding and patience. I love you, my children, JaeHyung and YounKyung. I have received a great deal of encouragement, advice and help from people associated with the CIRCSIM-Tutor research group. I am particularly deeply grateful to my advisor, D...

What do you do to start reading should i stay or do go now eight ways to increase loyalty and retention? Searching the book that you love to read first or find an interesting book that will make you want to read? Everybody has difference with their reason of reading a book. Actuary, reading habit must be from earlier. Many people may be love to read, but not a book. It's not fault. Someone will...

i Acknowledgements I owe a great deal of thanks and gratitude to many people without whom I would not have been able to finish this dissertation. My deepest gratitude is to my two advisors. Dr. Jürgen Konczak has been my mentor and guide through eight long years of training and education. He has brought me a long way toward learning how to be a scientist. Dr. Teresa Kimberly has taken me from a...

Homework compliance has been identified as a robust predictor of treatment outcome for depression and, to a lesser extent, anxiety disorders, including social phobia. The current study tested the following hypotheses: (1) homework compliance is positively related to ratings of global improvement, (2) homework compliance is negatively related to symptom reduction, (3) the relation between homewo...