Blender is a cryptographic hash function submitted to NIST’s SHA3 competition. We have found a semi-free start collision attack on Blender with trivial complexity. One pair of semi-free start collision messages with zero initial values is presented. 1. Description of Blender The hash function Blender consists of two procedures: preparing message, and hash computing. Blender has four variants re...

To extract English name mentions, we apply a linear-chain CRFs model trained from ACE 20032005 corpora (Li et al., 2012a). For Chinese and Spanish, we use Stanford name tagger (Finkel et al., 2005). We also encode several regular expression based rules to extract poster name mentions in discussion forum posts. In this year’s task, person nominal mentions extraction is added. There are two major...

Materials Scrap paper torn into 1” x 1” (2.5 cm x 2.5 cm) pieces (paper towels, construc tion paper, and toilet paper work well; a large bowl; a wooden frame 5” x 7” (13 cm x 18 cm) or 8” x 10” (20 cm x 25 cm); nylon or wire screen; staples; a plastic basin at least 2.5 gallons (9.5 liters) in capacity, that is larger than the frame; cloth dishtowels (felt, blotting paper, or newspaper may subs...

Lycopene in tomatoes and tomato products is routinely determined by extraction into organic solvents and spectrophotometric quantification. The direct determination of lycopene, by measuring the color or other optical properties of a tomato homogenate, would be an attractive alternative. We have evaluated two instruments for this purpose. The color of tomatoes and tomato products is routinely d...

Ann Macintosh International Teledemocracy Centre Napier University 10 Colinton Road Edinburgh, EH10 5DT, UK [email protected] Eric Welch Department of Public Administration University of Illinois at Chicago 412 South Peoria Street Chicago, IL 60607 [email protected] Suzanne Beaumaster Department of Public Administration, University of La Verne 2220 3rd Street La Verne, CA 91750 beaumast@ul...

Most of the current real-time 3D web applications are only available with plug-ins as Flash or additional software as Java. Avoiding this drawback, the new WebGL technology provides hardware accelerated computer graphics for web browsers without requiring plug-ins. Using Blender, WebGL, the WebGL-expanding framework GLGE, and an in-house developed exporter B2G from Blender to GLGE we have reali...

In-process testing requirements for adequacy of mixing are established in 21 CFR 211.110(a)(3). Considering also, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's draft guidance published in 1999 (Guidance for Industry, ANDAs: Blend Uniformity Analysis; http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/index.htm), the importance of when and how to perform blend uniformity analysis is obvious. Near-infrared (NIR) spectro...

This paper is focusing on the development of a robotic arm using 3D modeling and simulation. The software used Blender, which simulation that also supports programming language python as scripting language. Blender was chosen over Maya because it free suitable for students to develop their projects, share same features, more accessible, design realistic. designed after studying human hand. kine...

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OBJECTIVE The procedure for weaning from mechanical ventilation in many patients is a difficult and long process and increases the time of mechanical ventilation. There are numerous ways to achieve weaning. One common method is the use of CPAP. Considering the lower price of a humidifier, blender, and T-piece compared with CPAP and in light of the limited number of studies in this field, the cu...