In the mid-to-late 1800s, French writers and artists resolved to shed their Romantic skins in favor of new self-conscious "husks"--to borrow Baudelaire's poetic term--that is to say: Naturalism, Realism, Impressionism and Symbolism. Some of the older reformers found themselves in an awkward, transitional stage contrary to the younger vanguardists who bore no allegiance to the past. The first group included Baudelaire, Flaubert, Courbet, Manet, Degas and Pissarro while the latter listed among its most successful members: Zola, Mallarmé, Huysmans, Morisot, Monet, Renoir and Cézanne. This thesis argues that specularity--a sort of mirror mimesis--was part of the fertile, artistic exchange between these representative writers and artists who shaped nineteenth century French literature and plastic arts during a period of turbulent social and political change. It is important not to conventionalize specular-mimesis into an automatic looking glass response between literature and art. Its primary function in this thesis is to single out, investigate and inter-relate literary and artistic chefs-d'oeuvre which, at times, bear remarkably similar hallmarks, for one reason or another. Given that cultivated conversation was highly esteemed by the Parisian bourgeoisie and held to be an elegant art form by salon and soirée intellectuals, four Dialogues constitute the internal structure of this paper. Each Dialogue is preceded by its own Cadre which serves to introduce and familiarize the reader, using a mise-en-scene framework, with background information that supports the discourse.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Basel, 2000. / Bibliogr. p. 237-250. Notes bibliogr. Index.

Thesis (M.A.)--New York University. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Harvard University. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Radcliffe College. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Radcliffe College. / Includes bibliographical references.

Mobile Ad-hoc Wireless Networks (MANETs) present a new paradigm in which to realize a variety of communication technologies and services. The use of stochastic event-based simulation is a common approach to modelling MANET operations as part of the engineering process. To improve observations many simulations are often averaged together to produce estimations of MANET operation; however, to be statistically meaningful start-up transients must be removed, and only ergodic data averaged. These statistical issues of stationarity and ergodicity are often approached in an ad-hoc manner, if at all. This thesis presents a formal method to address these two statistical issues and applies it to the problem of quantifying MANET operation under different physical-layer jamming strategies. This demonstration illustrates the complex nature of MANET operation and the need for rigorous statistical analysis as part of the engineering process. / Graduate

There has been much research in recent years within the general field of mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) with many proposals submitted to the IETF for consideration. Delay or Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) is a relatively new field for routing, concerned with networks that experience long transmission delay or periods of disruption. Military forces around the globe have applied one or the other networking paradigms with varying degrees of success to their own problems of mobility at the lower tactical level (Brigade and below). The fundamental reason for this limited success is that many of the desired tactical scenarios at this level require a network that is not exclusively ad hoc or exclusively disrupted, but rather a network that dynamically adapts to a variety of mobility situations ranging from relatively stable, almost enterprise like, to completely disrupted. Synchronous MANET protocols have limited disruption tolerance at layer 3, and DTN routing protocols, which are further up the network stack, implement hop by hop asynchronous protocols that are unable to take advantage of prolonged network stability. The primary contribution of this thesis is NOMAD, a new hybrid routing protocol for military mobile ad hoc and disrupted networks. NOMAD is unique in that it operates as a proactive synchronous link state MANET protocol when the network is connected, but is able to seamlessly transition into asynchronous DTN mode when required. The results outlined in this thesis indicate that the hybrid NOMAD protocol provides a substantial improvement over standard synchronous MANET protocols. This thesis also makes a significant contribution with respect to synthetic mobility model generation. Mobility models are essential for the correct evaluation of any routing protocol. A mobility modelling tool called SWarMM (Synthetic Warfare Mobility Modelling) was also developed as part of this thesis. SWarMM provides an agent based simulation tool for generating credible synthetic mobility models for use with the discrete network simulation tools, such as OPNET and NS2.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1986. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 421-451). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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