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    The collection of the first statements of minors involved in criminal proceeding as possible victims and/or witnesses of abuse and neglect after the ratification of the Lanzarote Convention in Italy: procedures, problems and open questions

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    Vera Cuzzocrea 1,*Gian Luigi Lepri 2Patrizi Patrizia 3 Abstract: In recent years, national legislation and international legal doctrine and the psychological knowledge have developed a growing and ever more specific attention to the victims of crime, to the need to define the characteristics and rights, and to promote activities and policies of prevention risk of victimization and to identify and disseminate minimum rules and practices for the protection and assistance, in relation to the functions and procedures of criminal justice. We have witnessed the evolution of scientific contributions in the field of psychology and legal systems to try to increase the protection of the alleged victims of crime, in the direction of improving knowledge on the subject of testimony in childhood, methodologies, conditions and techniques used in the course of the preliminary investigation. This type of listening is characterized as an activity of a specialist psychology and law that require specific training and professional experience. It is not an evaluation or therapeutic intervention. A good listening must be able to ensure the necessary psychological protection to the child/adolescent (clinical valence) and, in parallel, to respond to the need to acquire investigation of the sources of evidence useful for the reconstruction of the facts and the possible identification of the culprit (criminology valence). The dual purpose of listening to maximize the information to be collected while minimizing possible sources of stress to the child and possible contamination in the recovery of memory therefore requires the interviewer to possess not only in-depth knowledge regarding psychology and law, psychology of the testimony and developmental psychology but also have a background in the use of specific protocols established by the investigative interview. In this report we present the first results of an exploratory research. The data that have been collected will be analyzed both with a descriptive and qualitative methodology. The data collected are about: sex, age, duration of the first statement, type of offense, number of statements, relationship with the author

    'Domesticating' the city: family practices in public space

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    The aim of this article is to rethink the analysis of urban life and the practices involving the use of urban space. To that end, we focus on the value that such practices have for social enquiry by employing the concept of domestication, which was originally elaborated by Silverstone in the field of media and technology scholarship. Specifically, the potential value of such usage is to embed practices that produce space in the complexity of the everyday culture of families, and to enable an analysis of urban space in its dual articulation in both public and private culture. A discussion of how the concept has been applied in a study of how parents in a small Italian city include urban space in the domestic sphere offers an empirical substratum to our argument

    Big-data-driven innovation for enterprises: Innovative big value paradigms for next-generation digital ecosystems

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    Among the various interpretations and meanings of the well-known Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety) of Big Data, V as Value represents the most significant and critical innovation for enterprises, which are a well-known case of digital ecosystems. The key issue for big enterprise data consists in extracting knowledge for creating new value and innovation for the target enterprise. Therefore, the big data analytics phase plays a critical role to this end. Following these considerations, in this paper we provide the following three contributions: (i) an overview of most relevant proposals in the context of big data innovation for enterprises; (ii) a reference architecture for supporting advanced big data analytics over big enterprise data; (iii) a discussion on future challenges in the context of big data innovation for enterprises. 1

    Interoperability of security-aware web service business processes: Case studies and empirical evaluation

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    In this paper, we provide significant contributions on top of a recent successful framework for supporting the interoperability of so-called security-aware Web Service Business Processes, i.e. Web Service Business Processes that incorporate Access Control Policies (ACP), via assessing and verifying its reliability on the basis of some well-suited case studies. Our evidence fully demonstrates the effectiveness as well as the robustness of the investigated framework. We complete our analytical contributions by means of a critical discussion on the advantages and possible extensions of this framework
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