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Item Traffic Engineering for LISP-Enabled Networks(2013) Sridhar, Raghunandan; Medhi, DeepankarInter-Domain Traffic engineering in the Internet faces serious limitations because of the current IP routing and addressing architecture. This coupled with Border Gateway Protocol’s (BGP’s) way of selecting performance-blind paths forces ISPs to de-aggregate IP prefixes to control the flow of packets between ASes. Advertising such de-aggregated, surplus prefixes for local benefits is causing the routing table of the Default Free Zone (DFZ) to grow rapidly, which contribute to routing scalability problems. Recently, in order to address this scalability issue, LISP (Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol) has been proposed, which separates an address space into a non-routable End-Point Identifiers (EIDs) and a routable Routing Locators (RLOCs), where each EIDs can be associated to more than one (multiple) RLOCs. In this work, we discuss two optimization models for traffic engineering in LISP-enabled network which exploits the route diversity or the path diversity the LISP inherently provides by introducing the concept of grouping multiple RLOCs with traffic proportioning or load-balancing as the optimization criterion. We compare the models to the base case that identifies with the current routing architecture (i.e. no proportioning). Through our study, we observe that LISP-based traffic engineering with multiple RLOCs offers noticeable benefits compared to when we do traffic engineering without proportioning demands to multiple RLOCs, except when the network is uniform in terms of load and capacity.Item Watershed-level Analysis of Urban Raingarden Performance(2013) Ma, Yanan; O'Bannon, DeborahUrban flooding became to be a big issue for many cities in the world due to the urbanization. Best Management Practices (BMP) are considered to be an economically friendly solution for the urban storm water problem. The City of Kansas City began the project of "10,000 Raingarndens in Metropolitan Area" in 2008. For the project, there are a test area and a control area. Both have similar drainage areas and similar precipitation. In the test area, there are 135 rain gardens completed in June 2012. There are four flow meters to monitor the flow rate in the combined sewer. This analysis examines the watershed-level runoff response from the rain garden installation.Item Francis A. Schaeffer : the force behind the evangelical takeover of the Republican Party in America(2013) Broomfield, Charles S.; Skidmore, Max J., 1933-Over the last 40 years or so, Americans have been involved in a religious/political struggle that has divided the nation. The struggle has impacted American government, culture, the economy, and international relations. It has divided the American people, almost evenly between so-called secularist, who favor government based on the Declaration of Independence, The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and evangelical/fundamentalist Protestant, Catholic Christians, many of whom seem to prefer a government based on the principles and dictates of the Bible. These particular Christians number in the tens of millions, with reputable polling organizations suggesting that there one hundred million of them. These conservative Christians attend tens of thousands of churches across America regularly and for the last forty years or so, have been listening to sermons offered by their ministers that regularly demonize the Supreme Court, Congressional liberals, Presidents, particularly if they are Democrats, and the United States government in general. As a result of these circumstances, it has been suggested by knowledgeable observers that conditions in America today resemble in some ways, the conditions that existed in this nation prior to the Civil War in the 1860s. While numerous individuals, organizations and philosophies deserve credit and/or blame for this current situation, a relatively unknown American missionary who spent most of his working life in Europe, is primarily responsible for "striking the match that lit the fire that started" the Religious Right of America on its current course to "take back America for God." That individual was Francis A. Schaeffer, who along with his son Frank, came back to America in the 1970s and 1980s to offer encouragement, guidance and a philosophical foundation upon which evangelical/fundamentalist/Catholic Christians would organize and develop one of the most powerful political organizations in the history of this country. A significant part of the success of these particular Christians has been the near "take-over" of the Republican Party. This thesis examines the life and work of Francis Schaeffer, his religious beliefs, and his leadership in the development of the Religious Right in America. It also presents new insights on perhaps the single greatest issue used by evangelical/fundamentalist/Catholics to incite their followers--ABORTION. Much of the personal information about Francis Schaeffer and his son Frank, comes not only from their numerous books, and news articles and books about them, but from several face to face interviews with Frank during his 2010 and 2011 trips to Kansas City to speak about his and his father's political/religious activities in the 70s and 80s. Frank, who regrets what he and his father got started, now travels the country attempting, unsuccessfully, to enlighten Americans to the dangers America now faces as as a result of a result of their earlier work. He also offers many personal and somewhat private observations about himself, his family and many of the current and previous leaders of the Religious Right. A most disturbing aspect of the entire situation is the fact that a vast majority of Americans and the American media either are unaware of the facts presented here, or they are fearful to discuss them.Item Egypt, the Fictive Theater of Napoleon's Glory: A Celebration of the Egyptian Campaign in Paintings, Architecture, and Decorative Arts(2013) Weiser, Abby Brianne; Ziskin, Rochelle; Art and Art HistoryThe reign of Napoleon Bonaparte was one of military glory, both real and imagined. In this thesis, I examine the promotion of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign (1798-1801), perhaps the most disastrous episode of his military career. Nonetheless, he commissioned paintings in honor of the expedition. I examine some of them, focusing on the propaganda tactics deployed. I then consider how these strategies were applied to the Description de l'Égypte, the publication dedicated to the Egyptian campaign. I then explore the promotion of the expedition in the areas of architecture, interior furnishings and the decorative arts. I examine the selection of sources from ancient Rome and Egypt, exploring in particular interiors by Napoleon's lead architects Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine. Finally, I examine the decorative arts commemorating the Egyptian campaign, analyzing the influence of the publication Description de l'Égypte. My contribution to this thesis is the expansion of the realm of inquiry to include paintings, architecture, urbanism, interior décor and decorative arts providing new insights into a project of propaganda which surpassed even the most powerful monarch Louis XIV.Item Painting the Mundane: An Examination of the Life and Career of René Magritte(2013) Rappé, Amye Michelle; Connelly, Frances S.; Art and Art HistoryThis thesis explores the important role René Magritte's biography plays in relation to his work as a painter. His works were primarily inspired by his middle class lifestyle and upbringing, something that was uncommon among the Surrealists. He is largely associated with the Surrealist movement of the 20th century, although he primarily worked without specific allegiance to an artistic group. A thorough examination of his life sheds light on his uncharacteristically un-avant garde lifestyle. His rejection of luxury and excess were in contrast to the fortune and notoriety sought by some of his contemporaries. While other Surrealists desired to live the bohemian, artistic lifestyle expected by the public, Magritte rebuffed the notion and aimed to live as an anonymous bourgeois man. The effect Magritte's biography had on his work is examined through his career as a commercial artist, his use of the Bowler-Hatted man, and his influence on the 1960s Pop Art movement. The relationship between biography and work is made by René Magritte's own words, those of his colleagues and contemporaries, and several noted scholars of Magritte