Expanding research on corporate corruption, management and organizations

In this special issue introduction, we briefly describe a variety of research paths researchers have followed to study the multifaceted phenomenon of corruption. Furthermore, we classify the papers included in this special issue according to their contribution to these research paths and briefly preview them. Finally, drawing on these four research paths and the papers included in this special issue, we propose a six-item agenda for future research on corruption

En marge de l’affaire Lacroix-Norbourg : les enjeux substantifs et punitifs suscités par le double aspect, réglementaire et criminel, de certains comportements frauduleux dans le domaine des valeurs mobilières

Dans le texte qui suit, les auteurs prennent l’affaire Lacroix-Norbourg comme point d’ancrage de leur réflexion et s’interrogent sur des questions relatives à l’application respective et cumulative du droit pénal provincial et du droit criminel. Leurs propos révèlent la fragilité de la distinction entre ces deux catégories de droit pénal. Les auteurs analysent la jurisprudence constitutionnelle au regard de cette affaire et suggèrent qu’elle a peut-être contribué à l’érosion du sens à donner aux notions fondamentales de crime et de peine. Ils plaident en faveur de l’application de principes fondamentaux de justice dans le domaine des infractions pénales réglementaires passibles d’emprisonnement et concluent qu’il faut sérieusement s’interroger sur la faisabilité et l’opportunité d’appliquer successivement le droit pénal des valeurs mobilières et le droit criminel.In the ensuing paper, the authors use the Lacroix-Norbourg scenario as their starting point in raising questions concerning the respective and cumulative application of provincial penal law and criminal law. Their observations reveal the fragility of the distinction between these two categories of penal law. The authors dwell upon constitutional jurisprudence with regard to this issue and suggest that it may have contributed to an erosion of the meaning to be given to the fundamental concepts of crime and punishment. They plead in favour of applying the fundamental principles of justice in the field of regulatory offences punishable by imprisonment and conclude that one must seriously question the feasibility and suitability of successively enforcing penal law as applied to securities, and then criminal law

En marge de l'affaire Norbourg : les enjeux substantifs et punitifs suscités par le double aspect, réglementaire et criminel, de certains comportements frauduleux dans le domaine des valeurs mobilières

Article accepté pour publication dans Les Cahiers de droit 2009 dont le thème spécial est : Dérives et évolutions du droit pénal. Les auteurs ont la permission de diffuser cet article dans Papyrus jusqu’à sa parution dans Les Cahiers de droit.[À l'origine dans / Was originally part of : Fac. Droit - Coll. facultaire - Droit pénal et Protection de la jeunesse

The Concept of Psychotextiles; Interactions between Changing Patterns and the Human Visual Brain, by a Novel Composite SMART Fabric

A new SMART fabric concept is reported in which visual changes of the material are designed to influence different human emotions. This is achieved by developing a novel electrochromic composite yarn, knitted into pattern-changing fabrics, which has high response in temperature change and uniform contrast. The influence of these pattern-changing effects on the response of the human visual brain is investigated further by using event-related potential (ERP). Four SMART pattern-changing fabric pairs were used in this experiment. Each fabric presents two patterns interactively with different, but complementary or opposing, pattern attributes. 20 participants took part in the experiment, in which they were exposed to the patterns, while their visual brain activities were recorded. Comparisons of the three prominent ERP components; P1, N1, and P2 that correspond to the two patterns of each fabric have shown significant differences in the latency and amplitude of these components. These differences show that patterns and pattern-changing cause different visual impacts and that these changes influence our level of attention and processing effort. The study concludes that with the pattern changing ability of these thermochromic hybrid materials we can create designs with attributes that can directly manipulate user emotions, which we like to call ‘psychotextiles’. Our study also poses much wider questions of our image processing process in relation to design and art

Comparison of motion artefact reduction methods and the implementation of adaptive motion artefact reduction in wearable electrocardiogram monitoring

A motion artefact is a kind of noise that exists widely in wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring. Reducing motion artefact is challenging in ECG signal preprocessing because the spectrum of motion artefact usually overlaps with the very important spectral components of the ECG signal. In this paper, the performance of the finite impulse response (FIR) filter, infinite impulse response (IIR) filter, moving average filter, moving median filter, wavelet transform, empirical mode decomposition, and adaptive filter in motion artefact reduction is studied and compared. The results of this study demonstrate that the adaptive filter performs better than other denoising methods, especially in dealing with the abnormal ECG signal which is measured from a patient with heart disease. In the implementation of adaptive motion artefact reduction, the results show that the use of the impedance pneumography signal as the reference input signal for the adaptive filter can effectively reduce the motion artefact in the ECG signal

Investigating the challenges of measuring combination mechanics in textile fabrics

Measurements of the mechanical behavior of fabrics started during the Zeppelin era in the 1900s, where tensile, shear and biaxial behavior of the airship’s envelope fabric were measured. More measurement methods were developed later when there was a need to measure fabric handle and behavior. Although measurements of tensile, shear, buckling and bending have been established and are being used, their combinations, which represent a more realistic approach, are still being developed. However, these multi-axial measurements pose challenges not only in apparatus design but also in determining the measurement parameters. Here these challenges are being put forward and further research requirements are identified and discussed. </jats:p