Profile: Jason De León

Intra - regional Internet connectivity still an ongoing assignment $ Carlos Silva Ponce de León

A review of market trends impacting the development of the applications architecture of the Internet in general is presented, followed by an historical review of the subject and an analysis of regulatory aspects. It concludes with a review of the state of backbone interconnection in Latin America. r 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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...

Introduction of Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León, the 2005 Henry Baldwin Ward Medalist.

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...

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...