The activity of the Ph.D. student Juri Luca De Coi involved the research field of policy languages and can be divided in three parts. The first part of the Ph.D. work investigated the state of the art in policy languages, ending up with ∙ identifying the requirements up-to-date policy languages have to fulfill ∙ defining a policy language able to fulfill such requirements (namely, the Protune p...

Scientific research can be a cutthroat business, with undue pressure to publish quickly, first, and frequently. The resulting race to publish ahead of competitors is intense and to the detriment of the scientific endeavor. Just as summiting Everest second is still an incredible achievement, so too, we believe, is the scientific research resulting from a group who have (perhaps inadvertently) re...

The Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology receives an increasing number of manuscripts reporting tests of associations of candidate genetic polymorphisms with measures of psychopathology in children and adolescents, including tests of gene-environment interactions. These studies represent the exciting new directions that research in child psychopathology is taking. However, the studies also repr...

NSA's Security-Enhanced (SE) Linux enhances Linux by providing a speci cation language for security policies and a Flask-like architecture with a security server for enforcing policies de ned in the language. It is natural for users to expect to be able to analyze the properties of a policy from its speci cation in the policy language. But this language is very low level, making the high level ...

Language plays a role in the genocide of Rohingya people Myanmar and continues to shape their experiences displacement, yet linguistic rights are rarely discussed relation human humanitarian concerns. International standards offer important foundations for conceptualizing “right language” identifying how can be violated both situ displacement. The case highlights language policies weaponized op...