Text messaging programs on mobile phones have shown some promise in helping people quit smoking. Text2Quit is an automated, personalized, and interactive mobile health program that sends text messages and e-mails timed around a participant's quit date over the course of 3 months. The text messages include pre- and post-quit educational messages, peer ex-smoker messages, medication reminders and...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of daily text messages as a means to improve caregivers' adherence to infant micronutrient powder (MNP) in rural Shaanxi Province of China. METHODOLOGY 638 infants aged 6-11 months in 234 villages were involved in a cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT). All caregivers were given free infant MNP packets at baseline in April 2013 and the follow-up su...

Automated filters are commonly used in on line chat to stop users from sending malicious messages such as age-inappropriate language, bullying, and asking users to expose personal information. Rule based filtering systems are the most common way to deal with this problem but people invent increasingly subtle ways to disguise their malicious messages to bypass such filtering systems. Machine lea...

extended abstract 1. introduction the present study aims to investigate the potentials of two significant translation paradigms in children’s literature: 1) skopos paradigm; and 2) equivalence paradigm. the former seeks equivalence in the source text while the latter seeks it in the target text. to this end, three translations of “the little prince” by mohammad ghazi, ahmad shamlou, and abolhas...

In the United States, 173 billion text messages were sent monthly by 293 million cell phone subscribers, according to mid-year 2010 data. Th at’s about 20 daily text messages per subscriber. According to the Pew Research Center, 82% of US adults are cell phone users and 72% of adult cell phone users send or receive text messages. Based on a Kaiser Family Foundation study, cell phone ownership i...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a system to summarize e-mail messages. The system exploits two aspects of e-mail, thread reply chains and commonly-found features, to generate summaries. The system uses existing software designed to summarize single text documents. Such software typically performs best on well-authored, formal documents. E-mail messages, however, are typical...

Steganography is a technique hiding secret information within innocent-looking information (e.g., text, audio, image, video, and so on). In this paper, we propose a quantum steganography protocol using plain text as innocent-looking information called cover data. Our steganograpy protocol has three features. First, we can use any plain text that is independent of any secret message sent between...

The amount of information exchanged over the Internet is continuously growing, taking the form of short text messages on microblogging platforms such as Twitter. Due to the limited size of these types of messages, their understanding may require to know the context of their occurrence. In this paper, we propose a higher-level representation of short text messages based on a thematic model obtai...

Text messaging is the most widely used form of computermediated communication (CMC). Previous findings have shown that linguistic factors can reliably indicate messages as deceptive. For example, users take longer and use more words to craft deceptive messages than they do truthful messages. Existing research has also examined how factors, such as student status and gender, affect rates of dece...