Dissertations / Theses: 'Ant queens'

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Cherasse, Sarah. "Reproduction and immunity in ant queens: Reproduction et immunité chez les reines de fourmis." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/284596.

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Ants and other social Hymenoptera (social bees and wasps) have a remarkable mating strategy. Social Hymenoptera live in societies where reproduction is monopolized by a fertile caste consisting of males and queens. On the other hand, the logistical tasks of the colony are carried out by a sterile female caste known as workers. Reproductive individuals mate during a single bout early in their life and will never engage in additional reproductive events later on. Males die soon after mating while queens store millions of sperm cells in a specialized organ, the spermatheca. Queens will use this sperm stock to fertilize eggs during the rest of their life that can last up to several decades. With a record of 28.5 years in the black garden ant, ant queens have the longest lifespan recorded to date among the social Hymenoptera. In my thesis, I addressed three aspects of ant queen reproduction. First, I tested the effect of mating on the expression of several genes involved namely in fecundity, longevity and immunity. I found that mating induces an up-regulation of the yolk precursor vitellogenin and of the antimicrobial peptide defensin. Second, I measured the intensity of different immune responses in male and queen genital organs in order to determine which immune pathways are activated to protect sperm. Antimicrobial peptide genes are expressed in the genital tract of both sexes and the queen spermatheca is capable of strongly inhibiting bacterial growth. The immune melanization response is, however, overall inactive in the organs tested probably because its unspecific mode of action and cytotoxic by-products are likely to damage sperm cells. Immunity thus seems to be closely regulated in organs that are in contact with sperm. Third, I determined if activation of the queen immune system had an impact on the survival of sperm stored in the spermatheca. There is no detectable effect in young newly mated queens whereas, in one year old queens, immune activation induces a significant reduction in sperm viability. Life stage thus seems to influence queen ability to preserve sperm viability in the event of an immune challenge. In addition, one year old queens have higher sperm viability than newly mated queens suggesting queens are able to displace dead sperm cells from their spermatheca. Finally, I relied on the well-established sequence of behaviors inherent to the early life of ant queens to try to uncover the largely unknown roles of inotocin, the insect ortholog of the vertebrate hormones oxytocin and vasopressin, in regulating insect behavior. I measured gene expression of the inotocin receptor and found that it is highly expressed during social and reproductive behaviors, which is consistent with previous results in vertebrates. Inotocin might thus also be involved in modulating these behaviors in insects, but further studies are needed to be able to fully understand this complex signaling system. Overall, I show that reproduction and immunity are closely linked in ant queens and that the latter provide promising models for investigating the roles of hormones in insects.
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Wyschetzki, Katharina von [Verfasser], and Jürgen [Akademischer Betreuer] Heinze. "Evaluating proximate causes of longevity in ant queens by RNA-sequencing / Katharina von Wyschetzki ; Betreuer: Jürgen Heinze." Regensburg : Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1117219526/34.

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Dietemann, Vincent. "Differentiation in reproductive potential and chemical communication of reproductive status in workers and queens of the ant Myrmecia gulosa." Doctoral thesis, [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=968358268.

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Benz, Lisa. "Queen consort, queen mother : the power and authority of fourteenth century Plantagenet queens." Thesis, University of York, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14154/.

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Between 1299 and 1369 there was a continuous succession of queen consorts and queen dowagers. Margaret of France was queen consort between 1299 and 1307 and died in 1318, Isabella of France was queen consort between 1308 and 1327 and she died in 1358 and Philippa of Hainault was queen consort between 1328 and 1369 when she died. A continuous transition between queens is particularly exciting for a study of queenship because an analysis of these queens' activities provides a unique opportunity to form conclusions about nonnative queenly behaviour, and to determine the extent to which their activities depended on circumstance and inclination. The overlapping of consorts and dowagers also allows us to study the relationships between these women. Yet there has been no full-length study which takes advantage of this exceptional period in late medieval history. This present study proposes to do so, and frames this examination around four major themes: gender; status; the concept of the crown; and power and authority. By using administrative, visual and literary sources this study seeks to address the themes of gender, status, medieval concepts of the crown and power and authority. Through these themes it expounds upon the relationship of the ideology of queenship and the historical actions of three fourteenth-century queens. This thesis will demarcate when the queen's power is symbolic or achieved through her own initiative. It examines the extent to which gender and status dictated the nature of her power and authority, and it will use the concept of the crown to assess her royal status. It acknowledges that gender inequality existed in the medieval period; the queen could not rule in her own right, nor act as chancellor, treasurer or member of parliament. However, instead of emphasizing the queen's independence or her constraints and limitations, this study seeks to provide an even-handed analysis of how the queen acted. Overall, this thesis concludes that not only did the queen remain a visible part of the centralized monarchy, she also held official roles within government She was embedded in the administrative apparatus of government as a wife, a mother and a widely recognized representative of the crown.

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Burns, Kellie Jean, and n/a. "Blood, sweat and queers : (re)imagining global queer citizenship at the Sydney 2002 Gay Games." University of Otago. School of Physical Education, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080514.131842.

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This thesis takes the Sydney 2002 Gay Games: Under New Skies �02, as a case study into the production of global queer citizenship. In the existing body of work around the Gay Games they are analysed as an international gay and lesbian sporting event (Cramer, 1996; Krane et al., 2001; Pronger, 2000; Waitt, 2005), as a gay and lesbian community event (Krane & Waldron, 2000; Symons, 2002, 2004; Waitt, 2003, 2006), and as a cultural site where discourses of nationality, sport and sexuality converge (Miller, 2001; Probyn, 2000; Rowe et al., 2006; Stevenson et al., 2005; Waitt, 2005; Waitt & Markwell, 2006). This thesis builds on these investigations, asking specific questions about the ways in which discourses of sexuality and citizenship are produced and governed within and across the Sydney 2002 Gay Games promotional and media materials. The analysis is guided by Michel Foucault�s notion of governmentality (1991) and the works of related theorists who map the disparate array of neoliberal mechanisms of government that �conduct the conduct� and �act on the actions� of individuals and certain populations (Bratich et al., 2003; Gordon, 1991; Larner, 2000; Larner & Walters, 2002, 2004; Miller, 1993; Rabinow & Rose, 2003; Rose, 1996a, 1999). The analysis begins by asking how discourses of the autonomous, neo-liberal subject converge with discourses of �global living� such that individuals are invited to imagine themselves as increasingly flexible, freedom-loving (Rose, 1999), self-assured, cosmopolitan global citizens. The idea of the global imagination is then used to explore the ways in which the Gay Games commitment to �total inclusion� and its promise of personal and community transformation rely on similar neo-liberal renderings of tbe subject. It argues that the event�s �political� promises not only normalise certain forms of identity-based consumption (Chasin, 2000), they also (re)produce and normalise a very entrepreneurial, western-centric, cosmopolitan �brand� of global queer citizenship. The thesis also emphasises the important role that images and image-related technologies played in upholding normative meanings around queer sexuality and queer citizenship at the Games. In doing so, the thesis argues that images and technologies do more than simply represent individuals� lived experiences. Images, it argues, are (inter)active entities that produce and shape individuals� understanding of the �real� and how they come to know themselves as certain types of subjects. Where the Sydney 2002 Gay Games were concerned, images were integral in producing normative meanings around gender, sexuality and citizenship and in governing participants� experiences as �locals�, �global visitors�, �athletes�, �cultural participants� and consumers.

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Coull, Jamie Lee. "Faux Queens: an exploration of gender, sexuality and queerness in cis-female drag queen performance." Thesis, Curtin University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2117.

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This research explores the cultural implications of cis-women performing as drag queens; focusing on straight-identified performers.The exegesis and creative production examine intersections between heterosexual and queer identities, and whether straight-identified faux queens may be queered by performance practice. Drawing on practice-led research, autoethnography and in-depth interviews, the thesis explores challenges in negotiating cis-gender iterations of drag and discusses ways that faux queen performances maintain the challenge of queer and resist reincorporation.

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Lindqvist, Siri. "GIRLFAGS AND GUYDYKES - Too queer for straights, and too straight for queers." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26619.

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Aim. To highlight how girlfags and guydykes describe their identities and their experience and interpretation of the identity labels. Background and previous studies. The sexual minority identity of girlfags and guydykes are sometimes perceived as provocative in their contradictory labels. There is little to no previous research on the identities and what is known is mostly presented on internet blogs and forums. The identities seemingly involve aspects on sexual orientation, gender and sexual practice. Research related to sexual minorities, non-normative sex, LGBT and the risk of ill-health with identifying as a sexual minority is presented. Method. Semi-structured interviews in a method of choice was applied to this study so as to ease contact with a sexual minority group. Participants were sought through a Facebook © forum, with a total of eleven interviews with two guydykes and nine girlfags, through video call (2), phone call (1), in person (1), email (6), email with sound files (1). The data was analysed with content analysis. Results and analysis. The results were extensive and had to be delimited. The results were analysed in a sexual constructionist setting using the concept of the heterosexual matrix (Butler, 1990) and the concepts of gender/sex sexuality and nurturance and eroticism presented in van Anders’ (2015) Sexual Configurations Theory (SCT). Three main categories were presented; A play on gender, Sexuality and Orientation, and Identity. Conclusions. There is pride portrayed in the girlfag and guydykes identities. The identity breaks norms regarding gender and sexuality and even sexual orientation within an LGBT context. The results indicate that further research on transgender issues and relational and social aspects of the identities is needed. Keywords: autoandrophilia, gender identity, genderqueer, girlfag, guydyke, homosexuality, LGBT, non-normative, sexual minorities, lesbian man, queer.

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Salazar, Atías Camila. ""QUEENS´LOVE ALWAYS AND FOREVER- AMOR DE REINA" – LATINAS WHO CHOSE TO JOIN THE ALMIGHTY LATIN KING AND QUEEN NATION." Thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Sociology, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-42203.

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The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, one of New York’s largest street gangs allowed me through the Street Organization Project to interview and conduct field research with their female members during the years of 1997-1999. This paper is a direct result of my research and it examines the processes leading Latinas to join the female branch of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, show the changing nature of gang female participation and the motives for continuing within the gang.

The New York State Latin Queens were founded in 1991 after a manifesto for the Latin Queens was penned by King Blood, the First President of the New York State Latin Kings. Until that time, there had been no organized group for women who wanted to join the Latin Kings. They were called the Naia Tribe. After 1996, the role of the Queens began to expand with the ascension of King Tone to the Inca position (First President) of the New York State. Under King Tone’s leadership, the rules of the Queens were amended. For the first time the Queens began to put forward their own demands, which challenged some of the discriminatory rules and male privileges of the group

The Latin Queens I interviewed were from different areas in New York with a predominantly Puerto Rican and Dominican background. The respondents described their motives for joining either directly or indirectly under a multitude of different themes that spoke to the effects of systematic physical abuse, economic deprivation, health problems, emotional trauma, cultural denial and family disintegration. I will analyze these in greater depth by breaking them down and contrasting the findings to the four themes also identified in the literature as: issues of identity, family pressures, economic survival and family/community networks.

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au, J. Horncastle@murdoch edu, and Julia Horncastle. "Queer Being and the Sexual Interstice: A Phenomenological Approach to the Queer Transformative Self." Murdoch University, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20081105.142124.

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This thesis explores a notion of queer being in relation to a difficult yet creative articulation of queer self-consciousness. The difficulty of attempting to particularise self-consciousness is challenged and dismantled by proposing ways in which putatively exclusive esoteric knowledges of being can be exposed and expanded. This is achieved by justifying singular (queer) experience as it coincides with the disparities between subjectivity and objectivity, experience and existence. I argue that two key perspectives (those of interstitiality and self-transformativity) provide a basis whereby we can force a radical articulation of queer being-ness into general and contemporary philosophical discourses of being. In doing so, a particularised theory of intersubjective being emerges as a way to identify the complicity of ethics and ontology. Queerness in this thesis is especially articulated as an eccentricity or poetics of being, experienced at the juncture of diverse knowledge spaces. These include not only the threshold and radical spaces of sexuality and gender, but also the perceived limits of theories of being which allow us to formulate understandings of self-consciousness. This is evidenced through a critical analysis of feminist, queer, transgender, phenomenological and existential texts and/or practices, paying special regard to everyday, real-life experience. By using a combination of the logic of the interstice, genealogical methods, hermeneutical analysis and a deconstructionist theoretical approach, the thesis seeks out, and insists upon, ways to articulate and determine the possibility of a queer sensibility as both a practice of self-transformativity and a more broadly applicable knowledge heuristic. The thesis demonstrates that by increasing an awareness of a particular kind of self-transformative queer being-ness one that embraces a critical ethics of being the rich insights of queer experiences and knowledges can act as a valuable resource for reviewing the horizons of the ontology of the subject. It also suggests that particularising the term queer in relation to a complex theory of sensibility provides new depths for understanding, and practical ways to make use of, a queer theory of being.

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Biles, Leslie. "Pink flamingos and the two queens." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0015/MQ47980.pdf.

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Flores, Guadalupe. "The pirate queen." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5470.

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Five women actors working during the Golden Age of Hollywood vie for the lead role in a sprawling epic movie titled “The Pirate Queen.” Alliances and rivalries form among the women with the impending involvement of America looming in the background, and the struggle between democracy and fascism form a thread running through the action on the film set.

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Andrade, Anthea Rebecca. "The Anglo-Saxon Peace Weaving Warrior." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/12.

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Beowulf presents a literary starting point in the discussion of peace weaving, reflecting the primary focus of Anglo Saxon epic poetry on the male hero rather than the peace weaver. Scholarship on peace weaving figures in the poem tend to negatively perceive the lack of female presence, and determine the tradition as one set up for failure. Adding historical peace weavers like Queen Emma to the discourse encourages scholars to view smaller successes, like temporary peace, as building on each other to ultimately cause the peace weaver to be successful at her task. From studying the life of Queen Emma, the continuous struggle of such a figure to be an influential presence in her nation is more evident. Combining the images of peace weaving set down by literature and then history prove that figures participating in the tradition are as vital to the heroic world as the warrior himself.

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Cimino, Roberta. "Italian queens in the ninth and tenth centuries." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5359.

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This thesis investigates the role of queens in ninth and tenth century Italy. During the Carolingian period the Italian kingdom saw significant involvement of royal women in political affairs. This trend continued after the Carolingian empire collapsed in 888, as Italy became the theatre of struggles for the royal and imperial title, which resulted in a quick succession of local rulers. By investigating Italian queens, my work aims at reassessing some aspects of Italian royal politics. Furthermore, it contributes to the study of medieval queenship, exploring a context which has been overlooked with regard to female authority. The work which has been done on queens over the last decades has attempted to build a coherent model of early medieval queenship; scholars have often privileged the analysis of continuities and similarities in the study of queens' prerogatives and resources. This thesis challenges this model and underlines the peculiarities of individual queens. My analysis demonstrates that, by deconstructing the coherent model established by historiography, it is possible to underline the individual experiences, resources and strengths of each royal woman, and therefore create a new way to look at the history of queens and queenship. The thesis is divided into four main thematic sections. After having introduced the subject and the relevant historiography on the topic in the introduction, in Chapter 2 I consider ideas about queenship as expressed by narrative and normative sources. Chapter 3 deals with royal diplomas, which are a valuable resource for the understanding of queens' reigns. Chapter 4 analyses queens' dowers and monastic patronage. Chapter 5 examines the experience of Italian royal widows. Finally, the conclusive chapter outlines the significance of this thesis for the broader understanding of medieval queenship.

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Green, David Anthony. "Departure processes from MAP/PH/1 queues." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://thesis.library.adelaide.edu.au/public/adt-SUA20020815.092144.

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Bibliography: leaves 145-150. Electronic publication; Full text available in PDF format; abstract in HTML format. A MAP/PH/1 queue is a queue having a Markov arrival process (MAP), and a single server with phase-type (PH-type) distributed service time. This thesis considers the departure process of these types of queues, using matrix analytic methods, the Jordan canonical form of matrices, non-linear filtering and approximation techniques. Electronic reproduction.[Australia] :Australian Digital Theses Program,2001.

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Nelson, Jessica Alice. "Queens and queenship in Scotland, circa 1067-1286." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445337.

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Al, Ali Alkattea Raghdan. "Ontogenetic and individual patterns of volatiles in honeybee queens Apis mellifera and its significance for the acceptance of queens in honeybee colonies." [S.l. : s.n.], 2008. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-2916.

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Brady, Anita, and n/a. "Constituting queer : performativity and commodity culture." University of Otago. Department of Communication Studies, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080429.113540.

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This thesis foregrounds a question unanswered in queer theory�s account of the ongoing reproduction of heteronormativity. In Gender Trouble, Judith Butler asks "From where does the performative draw its force, and what happens to the performative whose task it is to undo" that discursively legitimated enacting? (Bodies That Matter 224-5). While queer theory offers a compelling account of how the normative fictions of identity privilege heterosexuality, the first part of Butler�s question remains relatively under-theorised. This thesis addresses this gap and argues that to understand the source of performative authority, we must address the intimate relationship between gay identity and commodity culture. Thus, I investigate the connections between the marketing industry, an historically politicised gay press, and a lesbian and gay politics imagined through the paradigm of identity, and argue that they combine in a citational feedback loop to performatively produce gay identity as the "ideal consumer." I then undertake case studies of two media texts, the website Gay.com and the television series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, in order to demonstrate how the white, male, middle-class gay aesthete functions hegemonically as gayness in culture. My analysis then turns to the second part of Butler�s question -"what happens to the performative whose task it is to undo?"- and examines the consequences of the absence of an analysis of commodity culture for the notion of queer. To that end, I suggest that alongside their repetitions of gay normativity, both Gay.com and Queer Eye perform queer possibility. However, the case studies I undertake, along with the critical reception of Queer Eye and the internet technologies behind Gay.com, suggests that these media texts fall short of the promise of queerness. This apparent failure to disturb heteronormative reproduction is connected in these critiques to each text�s commercial imperatives. This thesis argues that such critiques tend to rely on determinations of the authenticity of queer performance, and emphasise veracity over queer theory�s potential to exploit the critical potential of deliberate indeterminacy. I argue, instead, that a key part of queer theory�s contingency is its capacity to respond to the changing performative contexts of the normative repetitions it seeks to undo. To put this more simply: If consumer desire defines contemporary gayness, then it is with consumer desire that queer theory must contend. It is precisely the indeterminacy of queer that enables such shifts in its strategies of subversion. Recognition of how queer�s indeterminacy enables those subversive moves returns us to the importance to queer theory of a sustained consideration of the constitutive capacities of commodity culture. What I suggest in this thesis is that if we do no ask "From where does the performance draw its force?" then we cannot answer "And what happens to the performative whose task it is to undo?" the normative framework of identity.

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Guthrie, Meredith Rae. "SOMEWHERE IN-BETWEEN: TWEEN QUEENS AND THE MARKETING MACHINE." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1119390228.

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Furlan, Francesca. "Paris is still Burning: drag queens, gender and language." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018.

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The aim of my dissertation is to analyze the documentary Paris is Burning both in socio-political and linguistic terms. Paris is Burning is a 1991 documentary that sheds light on the lives of New York’s African American and Latinx drag queens, their rituals and their iconic language. I chose Paris is Burning because the community it depicts is an incredible example of how gender, class and race come together, in very complex ways, to create Queer identities. With my work I intend to find an answer to the following questions: how can we define a group that does not fit into society’s standard? And how can such group define itself? How are Queer people limited by heteronormative language and society? To answer, first I looked into the history of drag and of the Harlem’s ball circuit, the backdrop of the documentary. For the second chapter, I explored Queer Theory, in particular the work of Judith Butler, and sociolinguistics, to determine which are the best tools and guidelines to analyze a community as complicated as that of Paris is Burning. For the last chapter I used as reference Lakoff’s women’s language (1975), African American Vernacular English and elements of gay subculture to do my own analysis of the language used by the documentary’s queens.

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Riley, Rosemary McKeon. "The Tween Queens: Little girls and big girl relationships." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/colorado/fullcit?p1425765.

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Watson, Siobhan (Siobhan Therese). "Sustainability at the project level : the case of Willets Point, Queens." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44349.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-56).
Citywide sustainability planning creates a vision of how environmental concerns will shape urban development, but the way these plans are incorporated into individual development projects plays a large role in determining how that vision will be achieved in practice. I propose a system for evaluating the extent to which individual urban development projects contribute to urban environmental sustainability and use it to evaluate the proposed redevelopment of Willets Point, Queens, in New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made sustainability a major part of his agenda during his administration, and calls the Willets Point project a model of sustainable development. The plans for the redevelopment, however, fail to address several aspects of sustainable development as I define it, and address others only weakly. I argue that in order to achieve strong sustainability, cities must use major projects like Willets Point to rethink how they will develop, and should maximize such projects' contributions to sustainable development.
by Siobhan Watson.
M.C.P.

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Downie, Fiona. "'Sche is but a womman' : the queen and princess in Scotland, 1424-63." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 1998. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=59666.

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Kandare, Camilla Eleonora. "Figuring a Queen Queen Christina of Sweden and the embodiment of sovereignty /." Diss., UC access only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=67&did=1871856601&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=7&retrieveGroup=0&VType=PQD&VInst=PROD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1270228865&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 334-352). Issued in print and online. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

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Vergoz, Vanina, and n/a. "Effects of queen mandibular pheromone on locomotor behaviour and learning in worker honey bees Apis mellifera." University of Otago. Department of Zoology, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20081121.161845.

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In a honey bee colony, the queen uses queen mandibular pheromone (QMP) to induce young worker bees to feed and groom her. Among its many behavioural and physiological effects, QMP reduces dopamine levels in the brains of young worker bees. Dopamine is a biogenic monoamine involved in numerous functions including motor control and aversive learning. This study investigates the effects of QMP on motor activities and aversive learning behaviour and the potential link between QMP and dopamine levels in the brain of young bees. In young bees under the age of 15-days, QMP dramatically reduced locomotor activity and inhibited aversive learning behaviour. Interestingly in older bees these behaviours were not affected by pheromone. Treating young bees with the dopamine precursor, L-dopa (3.25 [mu]g/mI), partially rescued the levels of locomotor activity in QMP-treated bees, and reduced QMP�s effects on aversive learning. This suggests that blocking effects of QMP on both locomotor activity and aversive learning result at least in part from QMP-induced changes in brain dopamine levels. Two components of the QMP blend, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenylethanol (HVA) and methyl p-hydroxybenzoate (HOB) were examined more closely. Both HVA and HOB are structurally similar to dopamine. HVA was found to mimic the effects of the full QMP blend on aversive learning. Treating bees with HVA reduced aversive learning in young bees. In contrast, treatment with HOB did not affect learning ability. This strongly suggests that HVA is one of the key components that mediates the actions of QMP on aversive learning. The final section of this thesis investigates why it might be advantageous to honey bee queens to block aversive learning and reduce locomotor activity in young worker bees. The study reveals age-related differences in behaviours that individual worker bees display towards QMP. Young bees reared with QMP or collected from a queenright hive showed attraction to QMP. Conversely, older bees displayed avoidance behaviour towards QMP. By blocking the establishment of aversive memories, young bees may be prevented from forming an association between QMP and any unpleasant side effects induced by this pheromone. This may confer significant benefit to the queen by increasing the likelihood of young workers remaining in her attendance.

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Adair, David Francis, and n/a. "'Queer Theory': Intellectual and Ethical Milieux of 1990s Sexual Dissidence." Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20041014.102015.

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The main problem addressed by this thesis is the question of how to assess the politics and the cultural effects and implications of 'Queer Theory' during the period of the 1990s. 'Queer' was invoked in numerous institutions, spaces, and cultural practices over this period, and yet queer-identified theorists and many of their critics have often assumed that this term refers to a relatively unified object. I ask if it is appropriate to treat these 'queer' occasions in this manner, and whether this 'dispersed' object requires a different approach: one that sets out to describe means and routes by which it became possible and desirable to pose 'queer' problems across so many diverse sites and practices. In addition, if there are discernible patterns to these distributed cultural capacities and inclinations, what political significance do they have? These questions inform my account of the career of 'Queer Theory' during the 1990s. A post-humanist approach to these matters is not premised on an essential or a socially constituted general category of 'subjectivity'. Instead, it addresses 'Queer Theory' as a problem, without automatically critiquing it; it is sceptical of the perfectionist pulsion that has treated this critical practice as either a good or a bad object: dual roles that are mandated by the logic of dialectical criticism. These roles are exemplified by the frequent relegation of 'queer' in the relevant literature to the 'innately political' or the 'merely aesthetic'. In this thesis I identify ethical, cultural, and political yields of these conventional choices and the modes of problematisation in which they operate; I positively redescribe them as aesthetico-political practices. My approach therefore not only deviates from the 'good' or 'bad' critical options, but also from a third option: the equally rationalist response of assuming that 'Queer Theory' is fundamentally a problem of under-theorisation.

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au, p. coulson@murdoch edu, and Peter Coulson. "The biology of three teleost species with divergent life cycle characteristics and their implications for fisheries management." Murdoch University, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090324.143252.

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The overall aim of this thesis was to determine the size and age compositions, growth and reproductive biology of Western Blue Groper (Achoerodus gouldii), Blue Morwong (Nemadactylus valenciennesi) and Yellowtail Flathead (Platycepahlus endrachtensis) in south-western Australian waters, in which these three species have divergent life cycle characteristics. As A. gouldii and N. valenciennesi are commercially and recreationally important in coastal waters and P. endrachtensis is one of the most recreationally important species in the Swan River Estuary, these biological data were then used to produce estimates of mortality and spawning stock biomass per recruit for each of these species. The biological data and stock assessment parameters were finally employed comparatively to ascertain whether any of the three species possessed characteristics that would make them particularly susceptible to the effects of fishing and whether there was evidence that any of the species is fully or even overexploited. Achoerodus gouldii typically uses reefs in protected inshore waters along the coast and around neighbouring islands as a nursery habitat and then, as it increases in size, moves to deeper, offshore reefs, where it spawns between early winter and mid-spring. The maximum total length and age of A. gouldii were 1162 mm and 70 years, the latter being the greatest age by far yet recorded for any species of labrid. However, most growth occurs in the first 20 years of life. Histological and demographic analyses demonstrated that all individuals begin life as females and, after attaining maturity, many become males, i.e. A. gouldii is a monandric protogynous hermaphrodite. The L50 at maturity and sex change were 653 and 821 mm, respectively, which correspond to ages of c. 17 and 37 years, respectively. As sex change took place over a narrower range in lengths (650 to 900 mm) than in ages (15 to 49 years), that change is apparently related more to size than age. Since sex change is typically accompanied by a change from green to blue, body colour can be used as a proxy for determining the length (L50) at which females change to males. von Bertalanffy growth curves fitted to the lengths at age of individuals of each sex of this hermaphroditic species using a novel technique demonstrated that, with increasing age, the lengths of males became increasingly greater than those of females. Thus, at ages 15, 30 and 60 years, the estimated lengths at age of females were c. 600, 670 and 680 mm, respectively, whereas those of males were c. 695, 895 and 975 mm, respectively. As A. gouldii is very long-lived and sexual maturity, and even more particularly sex change, occur late, this labrid is potentially very susceptible to overfishing. Thus, because the mortality estimates and per recruit analyses indicated that, at present, this species is close to or fully exploited, fisheries managers will need to take a precautionary and watchful approach to managing and thus conserving the stocks of this species. As with A. gouldii, N. valenciennesi moves to deeper, offshore waters as it increases in size and then matures and spawns in those waters. Although N. valenciennesi has a maximum length of nearly 1 m and thus, like A. gouldii, is moderately large, it has a far shorter life span, i.e. 19 vs 70 years. While female N. valenciennesi does not grow to as large a size as its males (max. lengths = 846 and 984 mm, respectively), the maximum age of both sexes was 19 years. From the growth curves, the females by ages 3, 6 and 10 years havd attained, on average, lengths of 435, 587 and 662 mm, respectively, compared with 446, 633 and 752 mm, respectively, for males. Both sexes grew little after 10 years of age. Juvenile N. valenciennesi < 400 mm in total length were found exclusively in shallow, coastal waters on the south coast, whereas their adults were abundant in offshore waters of both the south and lower west coasts. The females and males typically mature in offshore waters of the south coast at lengths of c. 600-800 mm and ages of c. 7-9 years. In contrast, the vast majority of females caught in offshore waters of the lower west coast (where they were of a similar length and age range to those in offshore waters on the south coast) became mature at lengths of 400-600 mm and 3-4 years of age. The attainment of maturity by N. valenciennesi at far lesser lengths and ages on the lower west coast than south coast suggests that the former coast provides better environmental conditions for the gonadal maturation and spawning of this species. Furthermore, the contrast between the almost total absence of the juveniles of N. valenciennesi in nearshore waters on the lower west coast and their substantial numbers in comparable waters on the south coast indicates that the larvae of this species produced on the lower west coast are transported southwards to the south coast, where they become juveniles. As spawning occurs between mid-summer and late autumn, the larvae, which spend a protracted period in the plankton, would be exposed, on the lower west coast, to the influence of the southwards-flowing Leeuwin Current at the time when that current is at its strongest. Although N. valenciennesi is caught by recreational line fishing and commercial gillnet fishing when they are as young as 3-4 years old, they do not become fully vulnerable to these fisheries until they are about 9 years old. Consequently, the individuals of this species can potentially breed over a number of years before they become particularly prone to capture by fishers. Mortality estimates and per recruit analyses suggested that N. valenciennesi in south-western Australia is not currently overfished. A greater resilience to fishing by N. valenciennesi than A. gouldii presumably reflects, in part, its far shorter lifespan, earlier maturity and possession of gonochorism rather than hermaphroditism. Platycephalus endrachtensis spawns in the Swan River Estuary between late spring and early autumn and completes the whole of its life cycle in this system. Although females attain a far larger length (615 mm) than males (374 mm), females and males were present in each age class. These data, together with a detailed examination of histological sections of a wide size and age range of individuals, demonstrated that this species, unlike some of its relatives, is not a protandrous hermaphrodite, i.e. it does not change from male to female with increasing body size. The combination of the presence of females and males in all age classes and the observation that all of the large number of individuals between 374 and 615 mm were females shows that the far greater length attained by that sex is largely related to its faster growth rate. The fact that females outnumbered males in each age class of P. endrachtensis in which the sample size was substantial, i.e. > 25, with the overall sex ratio being 2.7 females: 1 male, indicate that there has been strong selection for egg production in this species. As the minimum legal length for retention of P. endrachtensis is 300 mm, and relatively few males exceeded this length, the recreational fishery which targets this species is based largely on its females. The estimates of mortality and results of per recruit analyses provided no evidence that P. endrachtensis is currently overfished. From a management point of view, it is advantageous that the current size limit for this species exceeds the average length at which its females (259 mm) attain maturity. Furthermore, this species appears to be resilient to capture and release. The data presented in this thesis demonstrate that A. gouldii possesses biological characteristics which make it potentially more prone to the effects of fishing than is the case with either N. valenciennesi or P. endrachtensis. This presumably accounts, at least in part, for the indications that A. gouldii is the only one of these three species that is likely to be close to or at full exploitation.

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Büttner, Miriam Gudrun. "The education of queens in the eleventh and twelfth centuries." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.619836.

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Dines, Martin. "Homecoming queens : gay suburban narratives in British and American film and fiction." Thesis, Kingston University, 2006. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20244/.

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Since the early 1980s, an increasing number of British and American stories in print and on screen have offered detailed fictional and autobiographical accounts of the suburban experiences of gay men. The aim of this thesis is to examine these texts, and to assess the position that suburbia holds in the gay imaginary. In so doing, this study will make a significant contribution to knowledge with regards to the interactions of sexual identity, space and narrative. Specifically, it will develop an understanding of the characteristics, functions and implications of cultural representations of suburban homosexualities, which, whilst widespread, have hitherto drawn only minimal critical attention. The thesis identifies and evaluates the various strategies with which gay narratives negotiate suburbia. Each strategy is considered as constituting a particular conceptualization of gay subculture, and as articulating certain forms of engagement with mainstream society. The thesis firstly examines texts which represent adolescent homosexuality in suburban settings through an analysis of the narrative trajectories of, and the characterization of suburbia in, conventional American coming-out novels, recent popular British gay films and American 'New Narrative' writing. Far from simply showing the need for homosexual youth to escape the suburbs, these texts extend the boundaries of gay identity, by recuperating early, disavowed experiences as gay. They also demonstrate the opportunities that such environments hold for gay men: suburbs appear to offer the possibility of greater freedom and authenticity, or constitute places where reconciliation with heterosexual society can be staged. Secondly, the thesis considers representations of adult gay men visiting and living in suburbia. I investigate the 'return' to the suburbs from the perspective of conservative gay critics and writers based in the United States and of radical British and American writers. I show that their respective aims of demonstrating the desirability of an assimilated, 'ordinary' gay suburban life, and of disrupting, or 'queering', heterosexual space, are unrealizable. A variety of fictional texts demonstrate that a more practicable and felicitous tactic is to revisit and reclaim suburban sites with gay subcultural significance.

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Blake, Thomas Hughes Jr. "Royal materials: the object of queens in Late Medieval English romance." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5717.

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As historicist as it is materialist, my dissertation both reads the fictional queens portrayed in romance against the fraught positioning of historical queens such as Isabella of France, Anne of Bohemia and Margaret of Anjou, and traces the ambivalent function in late medieval English society of objects including the sacring-bell, the Lollard bible and the royal sword. Merging the traditionally historicist field queenship studies with typically postmodern fields like thing theory and sound theory, I investigate how queens in late medieval romances coopt, queer and reconfigure material objects of masculine power. Each chapter examines a literary queen typically dismissed by subject-oriented ontologies as insubstantial. Analyzing romances that include Richard Coer de Lyon, Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, Malory's Morte D'Arthur and the Marian romance of "The Child Slain by Jews" from the Vernon Manuscript, I argue for the overlooked significance of literary queens as figures whose circulation illuminates the construction of medieval masculinities. Through contact with charged material objects that are pivotal to romance plots, queens query patriarchal materials, exposing their underlying "thingness" and malleability. Whether tracking the disturbing afterlife of a church bell used to exorcise the hero's queen mother in Richard Coer de Lyon, or analyzing links between the "Britoun book" that rescues Chaucer's Custance and Anne of Bohemia's vernacular books, my chapters tell a new story about the foreign queens of late medieval English romances by showing how they blur boundaries between male and female, subject and object, West and East, priest and parish, Christian and Jew, orthodox and heterodox, mother and child.

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Nesseler, Jordan A. "Quacks, queens, and interpreting dreams : a psychoanalytic literary theory manual for english majors." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1299.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.
Bachelors
Arts and Humanities
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Llorente, M. "The image of the Catholic Queen, Mariana of Austria : consort, regent and Queen Mother." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1348748/.

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María Anna of Austria was the daughter of Emperor Fernando III and the Infanta María. She married her uncle, Felipe IV. After the death of Felipe IV, Queen Mariana became regent, guardian-tutor and guardian-curadora of her son, the child-King, and in his name ruled the monarchy. Although Mariana is relatively obscure as a historical figure, we know her portrait thanks to Velázquez, who produced a number of portraits and included her, as wife of the King and mother of the Infanta, in Las Meninas, in the famous background mirror. The goal of this thesis is to examine the various portraits of the Spanish Queen Mariana in order to distinguish and explore the roles she played. There has been little recent historical research treating the years 1665-1696, the period which covers Queen Mariana´s designation as governor and tutor, and ends with her death. My research directly addresses this gap. A thorough list of illustrations of these portraits will facilitate an analysis of the iconography of her portraits and of the different elements which worked to constitute and represent her roles. The overall intention is to retrieve, reconstruct and bring back Queen Mariana’s image as a whole, the image that she, in the course of her life, originally commissioned. A systematic examination of Queen Mariana’s portraiture has allowed me to engage with the visual forms consciously used to represent the elements characteristic of the three states of womanhood -maid, wife and widow- as well as of the functions pertaining to queen consort, governor, tutor, curadora and queen mother. In addition, in my analysis of royal portraiture in seventeenth century Spanish painting, I have incorporated viewpoints developed by what is known as Court Studies. In this regard, my study of the royal portraits includes a detailed reading of the Spanish etiquettes, cortesias, and royal regulations (premáticas y pragmáticas), as well as an analysis of ceremonial and gender oriented subjects (period documents concerning the use of jewels, dress, female ceremonial, etc.).

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Griffin, Sean Franz Patrick. "Snow Queen : in the halls of the Snow Queen and what finally happened there /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3099919.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2003.
Vita. For 6 solo sopranos, women's chorus, string orchestra, percussion, harp, piano, and celesta. Accompanying tape includes recording of work.

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Palacios, Alexandra Sofia. "A Common Man Trapped inside the Queen’s Body." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1018.

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My thesis proposes a feminist-queer reading of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene in response to Julian Wolfreys’ “The ‘Endlesse Worke’ of Transgression”. I examine the challenges to male authority that the low-born poet, Spenser, faced when he presented his manual for the formation of new English subjects to his sovereign queen, Elizabeth I. The Prefatory Letter to Raleigh and passages from the 1590 version of the epic provide evidence to support the view that traditional hierarchical male/female binaries may have been destabilized by the presence of an unmarried queen. My thesis also supplements Wolfreys’ essay with historical information regarding Mary Tudor and Mary Stuart in order to underscore the ethnocentric aspect of the process of “othering” that takes place in The Faerie Queene.

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Bollen, Jonathan James. "Queer kinaesthesia : on the dance floor at gay and lesbian dance parties Sydney, 1994-1998 /." View thesis, 1999. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030903.143421/index.html.

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Zhang, Jiheng. "Limited processor sharing queues and multi-server queues." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/34825.

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We study two classes of stochastic systems, the limited processor sharing system and the multi-server system. They share the common feature that multiple jobs/customers are being processed simultaneously, which makes the study of them intrinsically difficult. In the limited processor sharing system, a limited number of jobs can equally share a single server, and the excess ones wait in a first-in-first-out buffer. The model is mainly motivated by computer related applications, such as database servers and packet transmission over the Internet. This model is studied in the first part of the thesis. The multi-server queue is mainly motivated by call centers, where each customer is handled by an agent. The number of customers being served at any time is limited by number of agents employed. Customers who can not be served upon arrival wait in a first-in-first-out buffer. This model is studied in the second part of the thesis.

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Pearson, Wendy G. "Calling home queer responses to discourses of nation and citizenship in contemporary Canadian literary and visual culture /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060123.143327/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wollongong, 2004.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 6, 2006). Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-323). Also issued as a print manuscript. Print manuscript includes ill. omitted from online version.

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Knutson, Douglas Ray. "Gender Dysphoria, Depression, and Performance Involvement among Gay and Bisexual Male Drag Queens." Thesis, Oklahoma State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10189241.

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Researchers and theorists have generally included drag queens and transgender (trans*) populations together in their scholarship, and have paid little attention to how these populations may differ. Such sampling practices may lead to a variety of misleading assumptions about both drag and transgender populations. For one thing, researchers have pointed to higher rates of gender dysphoria and depression among trans* individuals, but the same may not be the case among drag queens. In order to add greater clarity to similarities and differences between these populations, a gender dysphoria questionnaire, depression inventory, and work involvement inventory were administered to a sample of gay and bisexual, cisgender male drag queens. Descriptive statistics from these measures represent the first step toward establishing rates of depression and gender dysphoria among drag queens. Mean comparisons of rates of depression and gender dysphoria between gay/bisexual male cisgender drag queens and male-to-female transgender persons indicate significant differences between these populations. When level of involvement in drag was considered, a small positive correlation was found with depression while a small negative correlation was found with gender dysphoria. Results indicate that drag queens are less depressed and experience considerably less gender dysphoria than transgender individuals. Furthermore, gender dysphoria may decrease as involvement in drag performance increases. This data may add clarity to research on gender diversity, support efforts to de-pathologize drag performance, and reduce stigma associated with drag in general. Implications for future research and for mental health treatment are discussed.

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Forget, Natalie Erica. "Politics, power and prestige, the historiography of medieval English queens, 1821-1998." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ35888.pdf.

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Burchett, Paul Asa. "Paired and Total Domination on the Queen's Graph." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1055.

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The Queen’s domination problem has a long and rich history. The problem can be simply stated as: What is the minimum number of queens that can be placed on a chessboard so that all squares are attacked or occupied by a queen? The problem has been expanded to include not only the standard 8x8 board, but any rectangular m×n sized board. In this thesis, we consider both paired and total domination versions of this renowned problem.

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Pearson, Wendy Gay. "Calling home queer responses to discourses of nation and citizenship in contemporary Canadian literary and visual culture /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060123.143327/index.html.

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Kaloudis, Naomi Ruth. "Money, power, and gender evidence for influential women represented on inscribed bases and sculpture on Kos /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5037.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 30, 2007) Page v list of figures missing from manuscript. Includes bibliographical references.

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Garz, Jessica Beth. "The museum as agent of participatory planning : the Queens Museum of Art engages an immigrant neighborhood." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79200.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.
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In neighborhoods facing demographic shifts, like changes in ethnicity, class and language, resident participation in state-sponsored planning processes can be difficult due to unfamiliarity, mistrust or cultural misalignment between residents and existing planning agents. This is particularly true in neighborhoods with large populations of new immigrants, where residents do not only face language barriers, long working hours and a general unfamiliarity with local planning processes, but are also prone to face cultures of discrimination or self-induce exclusion for fear of legal action to shaky residency status. In this thesis I ask how can a cultural institution include new immigrants in participatory artist-led, neighborhood-based processes that ultimately connect to state-sponsored planning efforts? Specifically, how can a museum tie together independent participatory artist-led projects in a meaningful and impactful manner? Through a primarily case study of the Queens Museum of Art (QMA) located in New York City, I illustrate how with the specific goals of incorporating the voices of new immigrants in the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) renovation project in Corona Plaza, the museum was able to facilitate a collaborative participatory process that engaged multiple actors in an open and dynamic manner. I situate the case within the literatures of participation, from planning and art, in order to present various perspectives on the meaning, value and limitations of participation. Drawing from the literature, 1 highlight how without a clear declaration of long-term goals, QMA may face difficulty maintaining the commitment and participation of residents and may face questions of legitimacy in their community-based work in Corona. Following a general discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of a civil society institution involving itself in the political realm, I conclude that with a clear set of goals and with an acknowledgement of their own capacity limitations, museums can facilitate collaborative and dynamic participatory processes that overcome limitations of formulaic government-led processes and promote the planning of inclusive and equitable neighborhoods.
by Jessica Beth Garz.
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Silva, Marco Antonio Ferreira da. "Ultrasonographic assessment in pregnant queens : study of fetal heart rate and lymphoid organs." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/53522.

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Orientadora : Profª. Drª. Tilde Rodrigues Froes
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Agrárias, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Veterinárias. Defesa: Curitiba, 29/03/2017
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Resumo: O presente estudo baseia-se na análise ultrassonográfica no terço final da gestação em gatas, abordando avaliações que possa dar suporte ao médico veterinário imaginologista frente às mudanças da frequência cardíaca fetal e novos dados sobre à organogênese. O trabalho foi dividido em dois capítulos independentes. No primeiro capítulo o enfoque da pesquisa foi no monitoramento da frequência cardíaca fetal no terço final da gestação para detecção de acelerações e desacelerações, fenômeno este descrito em humanos e recentemente descrito em cães. Essas mudanças causadas na frequência cardíaca fetal podem estar relacionadas às contrações uterinas e estão fortemente conectadas ao momento pré-parto. Esse trabalho demonstrou que tais oscilações da frequência cardíaca fetal acontecem em fetos felinos e podem ser utilizados como uma ferramenta na previsão do parto. Devido a evolução dos aparelhos ultrassonográficos, a alta resolução melhora a avaliação de estruturas muito pequenas no feto, o que possibilitaria a identificação de órgãos ainda não descritos na literatura. Por esse motivo, o segundo capítulo descreve em qual fase gestacional da gata há o aparecimento de órgãos linfoides. Fizemos uma avaliação descritiva do timo e do baço, o que pode contribuir para avaliação desses órgãos em outras espécies. Palavras-chave: gata, gestação, ultrassonografia fetal, frequência cardíaca fetal, organogênese
Abstract:The main of research is based on ultrasonographic analysis in the final third of gestation in cats, addressing evaluations that may support the veterinarian's radiologist in the fetal heart rate changes and new data of organogenesis. Therefore, the study was divided into two chapters. In the first chapter, the focus of the research was on the fetal heart rate monitoring in the final third of gestation to detect accelerations and decelerations, a phenomenon described in humans and recently described in dogs. These changes in fetal heart rate may be related to uterine contractions and are strongly connected to the prepartum time. This work has demonstrated that such fetal heart rate oscillations occur in feline fetuses and can be used as a tool in predicting delivery. Due to the evolution of ultrasound devices, the high-resolution image improves the evaluation of tiny structures in the fetus, which would allow the identification of organs not yet described in the literature. For this reason, the second chapter describes in which gestational phase of the cat there is the appearance of lymphoid organs. We made a descriptive evaluation of the thymus and spleen, which may contribute to the assessment of these organs in other species. Keywords: cat, pregnancy, fetal ultrasound, fetal heart rate, organogenesis

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DeCoste, Kyle. "Street queens| The Original Pinettes and black feminism in New Orleans brass bands." Thesis, Tulane University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1599202.

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The musical traditions of New Orleans are largely patriarchal. As the predominant sonic signifier of New Orleans, the brass band amplifies this gender bias more than any other musical tradition in the city. Brass band song lyrics can at times revolve around the subjugation and objectification of women, which renders the brass band canon tricky to access for female musicians. These symbolic issues become socially reified in the male control of instruments and the barriers to professionalization experienced by female musicians. Indeed, female brass band musicians are in the minority, constituting few more than ten musicians in a city with somewhere in the vicinity of fifty bands, all of which feature about ten musicians. The available literature on brass bands has thus far focused almost exclusively on black men and, mostly due to the relative absence of women in brass bands, neglects to view gender as a category of analysis, reflecting the gender bias of the scene at large. Using black feminist theory, this thesis seeks to introduce gender as a key element to brass band research by studying the only current exception to male dominance in New Orleans’ brass band community, an all-female brass band named the Original Pinettes Brass Band. Their example forces us to reconsider the domain of brass band music not only as one where brass band instruments articulate power, but where gender is a primary element in the construction and consolidation of this power.

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Merton, Charlotte Isabelle. "The women who served Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids of the Privy Chamber, 1553-1603 /." Thesis, Online version, 1992. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/33095.

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Meiling, Giselle Gimenez. "Stressed Syllables in Argentine Spanish in Queens, NYC: Lengthening and F0 Early Peak Alignment." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5553.

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This thesis investigates the intonation of Argentine Spanish in Queens, NYC, with the goal of verifying if the unique prosody of producing early peak alignments in the F0 of Argentine Spanish, specifically of Porteños (those from Buenos Aires), is maintained among the intense contact influences with other varieties of Spanish in the area. Previous studies have reported this early peak alignment phenomenon in the Spanish spoken in Buenos Aires, and this paper strives to see if this still occurs among Argentine Spanish speakers in New York City. The Buenos Aires speakers were compared with other native Argentine Spanish speakers in New York City who originated from provinces other than Buenos Aires (primarily from Mendoza) to verify if the dialectal varieties of Argentine Spanish had remained the same under the intense language contact situation of living in Queens. The data in the current study are from interviews recorded during the summer of 2014 in the Queens, NYC neighborhood of Elmhurst. Acoustic information obtained includes total syllable duration, F0 measurements, and F0 patterns. Additional linguistic variables included vowel type and vowel syllable position within a word. Extralinguistic variables included speaker sex, age, origin in Argentina, educational level, number of years in NYC, and number of years in Argentina. Results indicate that early peak alignment does indeed occur among Argentine speakers in Queens, NYC; however, it is interesting to note that it not only occurs in the informants from Buenos Aires as predicted, but in the informants from outside Buenos Aires as well. This suggests that the Outside Buenos Aires speakers are undergoing prosodic dialectal leveling with their pitch accent patterns and an increase in stressed syllable duration as occur naturally among the Buenos Aires speakers.

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Curran, Greg. "Young queers getting together : moving beyond isolation and loneliness /." Connect to thesis, 2002. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000428.

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Macari, Marisa. "Contextualizing food practices and change among Mexican migrants in West Queens, New York City." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bb478389-8caf-49e4-96b2-2d57b0389c9f.

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This thesis is about food practices and change among Mexican migrants living in West Queens, New York City. Public health research suggests that Mexican migration to the US has a negative impact on food practices, with diets being less nutritious over a migrant’s stay in the United States and obesity being more common among longer-term than more recently-arrived individuals. Through ethnography, I explore how migration shapes food practices and examine the nuanced process of nutritional change that is often obscured in large-scale epidemiological studies. Food practices are important not just because they shape vulnerabilities to chronic diseases but also because they serve as prisms by which to examine migrants’ lives, pressures and aspirations. The three aims of this ethnography are to explore the food practices that Mexicans engage in after migration; to examine the social, temporal and political-economic contexts shaping food practices and change; and to describe how migrants themselves makes sense of nutritional change. I explore these themes using the approach of structural vulnerability, which views health practices and outcomes as influenced by social structures, relationships and inequalities. In so doing, I provide a critique of the public health literature’s use of the concept of acculturation to explain food practices, which largely obscures the role played by structural contexts and constraints. Through participant observation, conversations and interviews with Mexican migrants in West Queens, NYC, I have identified three contexts shaping food practices and change after migration: household dynamics and labour division; time constraints and work schedules; and the ‘food environment’, referring to the availability of food items and weight loss products. Gender dynamics, documentation status and class modified the way in which these contexts were perceived and negotiated by informants, which had further consequences on food practices. In these settings, informants were often encouraged to consume high-energy foods and large portions, to replace meals with snacks, to eat prepared or convenience foods, and to experiment with weight loss products. To rationalize nutritional change and body size disparities, informants employed multiple discourses. Some discourses emphasized the role of structural contexts and constraints related to time, money and documentation status, while others emphasized the role played by cultural beliefs, habits and acculturation. An ethnographic approach informed by structural vulnerability serves to articulate how the everyday lives and social contexts in which Mexican migrants are embedded, shape experiences of nutritional change. This thesis exposes a disconnect between the way in which the public health literature conceptualizes nutritional change and how it is lived ‘on the ground’.

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Addison, Jon. "Querns, millstones, and trade in Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain /." Title page and Contents only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ara225.pdf.

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Dieker, Antonius Bernardus. "Extremes and fluid queues." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2006. http://dare.uva.nl/document/19721.

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