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Introduction and objectives – Over the last decades, stress and work performance have become a subject of interest, not only in the workplace but also in our daily life. In addition, five distinct and competitive theories about the nature of the relationship of stress on work performance may be found in the literature. Therefore, despite the large amount of research done on the subject, the relationship between these two variables remains ambiguous since empirical observations do not converge towards a unique relational nature. The main objective of this study is to explore the effect of stress on work performance, and subsequently to verify the impact of personality on the stress/performance relationship. Methods – Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires and by salivary samples among management students (n=10). This is an empirical study on the relationship between stress and performance and the variables that could impact the relationship conducted in a laboratory. Results – The statistical analyses show significant relationships between stress and performance under certain conditions. Results also show that personality traits of agreeableness could have an effect on the differential of the sub-dimension of “problem-solving” performance, and emotional stability could have an effect on the differential of the sub-dimension of “customer service orientation” performance. Conclusion – These observations indicate the need to continue the research and to explore the workplace stress-performance relationship from the standpoint of moderators in order to understand the polymorphic nature of the relationship between these concepts.

Keywords: stress, performance au travail, cortisol, personnalité, caractéristiques individuelles

War is a form of competition and the drug wars are no exception to this definition. Drug wars are actually classic illustrations of competitors abusing the legal process to define their own drug trading as lawful while characterizing their competitor's behaviour as “crime”. Successive American federal administrations extended the drug wars through a combination of military assistance, financial pressure and secret agreements. These aggressions are the real abuses aimed at third world cultures. Since Americans purchase 60% of all illicit drugs and finance more than 90% of the police action against the trade, drug legalization drug crusade. On the other hand, even if drug legalization makes sense the U.S. federal government will not necessarily act sensibly. An alternative possibility is reform outside the U.S. capable of generating a competitive crises internationaly.

Fundamental issues related to the knowledge of the nature of life, to the scientific and ethical limits of the human body's possibilities, but also to the limits between living beings and machines, humans and animals, are today in the center of important interdisciplinary debates.The purpose of this article is to investigate the unimagined potential of life that emerges with improvements in biotechnology by highlighting the aesthetics of the « recreated » and « reconstructed » bionic meta-body. I chose as a starting point a particular set of artworks that use biotechnology as their medium and field of inquiry.I present five « ideal-type » categories of aesthetic representations of bioart in ordrer to understand these artistic fictions in the actual biotechnological context. These five « tables of thought » are not absolute : translucent body, prostheses to the body (symbiosis of man and machine), trans-specific hybridities (encounters with the absolutely Other), culture of the « semi-living » (new skins and « bio-facts »), desire for ubiquity.

Keywords: biotechnologies, post-humain, hybridations, esthétiques du corps, bioart, biotechnology, posthuman, hybridizations, aesthetics of the body, bioart, biotecnologías, post-humano, hibridación, estéticas del cuerpo, bio-arte

This study focuses on obtaining a better understanding of the amount of data required by a crime linkage system to identify serial violent crimes. The key objective of the research was to empirically test and discuss the relevance of reducing the content necessary to use these tools. Data for the current study was extracted from a French violent crime linkage database (ViCLAS). Analysis focused on the most used variables in the context of a sexual assault. Descriptive and factorial analysis were used to identify what kind of information is collected by the police and how it could be reduced by aggregating correlated data. Findings show that approximately 65 % of the types of information collected are used in less than 5 % of sexual assault cases. Results of factorial analysis show that it is possible to drastically reduce the information needed to use the tool effectively. Practical implications of these findings for sexual assault investigations are discussed.

Keywords: Système de gestion des liens, réduction de données, agression sexuelle, efficacité des systèmes, Crime linkage system, data reduction, sexual crime, efficiency of systems, Sistema de gestión de los vínculos, reducción de datos, agresión sexual, eficacidad del sistema

Focusing on the case of “homosexuals”, this paper highlights the relevance of Colette Guillaumin's contributions for the study of “sexuality” or “sexual orientation”. Her materialist approach receives little attention in this field, partly because it mostly deals with “race” and “sex”. It nevertheless contains precious tools for denaturalizing “sexuality”, and for considering its naturalization by discourse as both an effect and an instrument of concrete power relations. In addition, it can form a useful framework for the study of discourses of resistance to categorization. The paper briefly introduces two examples of those discourses of resistance, namely the problematization of « homophobia » and the proliferation of categories promoted by queer theory. It then explores Guillaumin's theoretical contributions for analysing the (de)construction of “homosexuals” as a category.

Keywords: Homosexualité, Colette Guillaumin, Rapports de pouvoir, Résistances, Catégorisation, Homosexuality, Colette Guillaumin, Power relations, Resistance, Categorization, Homosexualidad, Colette Guillaumin, Relaciones de poder, Resistencias, Categorización

In a context of land settlement, the first immigrants are generally most strongly represented in the population's gene pool. This study uses the Registre de la population et du recensement ethnologique de 1967 (1967 ethnological census and population register) to evaluate the differential contribution of the immigrant founders of the population of Isle-aux-Coudres (an island in the St. Lawrence River east of Quebec City); it examines the role of kinship and of the marital and reproductive behaviours of the descendants of these founders based on measures of kinship coefficient, probability of gene origin and genealogical information concerning the first known ancestor. The early colonisation period was initially characterised by familial immigration, followed by individual immigration. Subsequent generations have drawn their genes from this initial pool of immigrants and from later arrivals. Moreover, these later arrivals did not necessarily help to diversify the population's genetic heritage: the authors found a large number of exogamous unions with related individuals, most of whom were from the Charlevoix region. On the island, unions involving inbreeding proved to be more fertile, which contributed to homogenization of the gene pool; individuals of reproductive age in 1967 descend from quite a small core of founders.

Follow-up studies of the physical dangerousness of men released from correctional institutions, mental hospitals and special security psychiatric institutions have indicated that we cannot as yet predict with an acceptable degree of accuracy which men will be dangerous upon release. Because of the methodological and conceptual weaknesses of these predictive studies and their lack of success, as well as the practical difficulties which would arise from not attempting to select nondangerous men for release, a new approach to the problem of prediction is required. Such an approach might profitably make predictions according to how different sorts of offenders respond to various situations. Theories taking into account the interactions between persons and their environment may in future allow tolerably accurate predictions of future assaultive behavior under certain circumscribed conditions.

Despite intense diplomatic activity between Vietnam and her Southeast Asian neighbors to reach a compromise in their conflict resulting from the Vietnamese invasion of Kampuchea, the Hanoi government shows every indication of seeking to secure a permanent military and political presence in Kampuchea. Also because of the devastation brought by four years of the Pol Pot regime (1975-79), and the extermination of much of the skilled and educated social strata in Kampuchea, the Hanoi government has sent some 40,000 Vietnamese party cadres, civil officials and professionally trained to direct public affairs. Additionally, some 100,000 Vietnamese farmer s have migrated into Kampuchea, settling in such key provinces as Kompong Speu, Takeo, and Kompong Cham. Additional tens of thousands of Vietnamese settlers have moved into cities and the disputed frontier area. As fighting between the Vietnamese and resistance groups affiliated with the ''Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea" intensifies, the Hanoi regime also has been expanding its logistical-military network. This includes the construction of a new road network — popularly called the "New Ho CM Minh Trail" — linking the Vietnamese cities of Hue and Vinh, across Southern Laos, with Northwestern Kampuchea. Additionally, during the early weeks of 1983, a twenty-five kilometres long trench, studded with landmines and bamboo spikes has been constructed just inside the Kampuchean frontier, running from the village of Kop beyond the village of Yeang Dangkum — a region of frequent guerilla clashes. Al on g with the 180,000 man force of regular military maintained by Vietnam in Kampuchea, these measures indicate intentions of Hanoi's consolidation of power. Especially in Southeast Asia fears have arisen of a permanent Vietnamese "colonization" process in Kampuchea.