Octavio Paz de Jason Wilson

Ideograms of the East and the West: Octavio Paz, Blanco, and the Traditions of Modern Poetry

This essay engages two questions: first, it is a response to current attempts to make sense of various literary traditions in an era associated with postmodernity and globalization. I argue for a global but period-specific approach to the study of literary history. Secondly, this essay applies the period-specific theoretical model to the study of one poem: Octavio Paz’s Blanco (1967), known for...

Jason Triche

In the pre-Internet era there was a significant time lag between the creation of a work by an author and the time a consumer read that work. The Internet has allowed authors to create and publish their work and disseminate across the world quickly. There has been an explosion of online content and publishing over the last decade. Most people believe that this trend is going to continue on a ste...

Jason S

Diplopodia, or duplicated foot, is a rare congenital anomaly. It differs from polydactyly in that supernumerary metatarsal and tarsal bones are present as well as extra digits [1]. Only a few cases of this anomaly have been reported in the literature. Karchinov [1] reported six cases with associated hypoplasia or aplasia of the tibia. Hamanishi and colleagues [2] reported a case of diplopodia w...

Etude de la ceruloplasmine et du cuivre sanguin et urinaire chez les sujects normaux et dans la maladie de Wilson en Iran

Jason-1 / Jason-2 metocean comparisons and monitoring

The initial tandem phase of the Jason-2 mission is important for the calibration of the entire altimetric system, not just the records of sea surface height. However, as well as allowing a bulk comparison of metocean parameters such as wave height and backscatter strength (used to infer wind speed), it affords a more detailed opportunity to understand the artefacts within each instrument. The w...