Editorial: Blurbs, round IV

BLURBs. A coding scheme for toxicologic data.

A simple scheme is presented to enable coding of toxicologic data by medical examiners or coroners who can design or direct the structure of their computer databases. Based on the English language, BLURBs are created, which consist of a prefix describing the specimen, a root word indicating the substance analyzed, and a suffix indicating the test results. BLURBs are easily interpretable and can...

Can We Infer Book Classification by Blurbs?

The aim of this work is to study the feasibility of an automated classification of books in the social network Zazie by means of the lexical analysis of book blurbs. A supervised learning approach is used to determine if a correlation between the characteristics of a book blurb and the emotional icons associated to the book by the Zazie’s users exists.

Chosen IV cryptanalysis on reduced round ChaCha and Salsa

Recently, ChaCha20 (the stream cipher ChaCha with 20 rounds) is in the process of being a standard and thus it attracts serious interest in cryptanalysis. The most significant effort to analyse Salsa and ChaCha had been explained by Aumasson et al long back (FSE 2008) and further, only minor improvements could be achieved. In this paper, first we revisit the work of Aumasson et al to provide a ...

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