This paper details the process of creating the UNO Graduate thesis film Alien on a Savage Planet. Each major step in the filmmaking process is covered: screenwriting, producing, directing, cinematography, sound, production design, costumes, hair and makeup, workflow, editing, color correction, music and post- sound. A comprehensive assessment of the filmmaking process and the successes and failures of the project are discussed in length.

O sistema de acasalamentos das abelhas sociais é intrigante. As rainhas acasalam durante uma curta janela de tempo nas fases inicias de suas vidas, armazenando o esperma pelo resto de suas vidas. Enquanto as rainhas das abelhas sem ferrão (Meliponini) e de mamangavas (Bombini) se acasalam com um ou poucos machos (monândricas), as rainhas de espécies representantes do gênero Apis (Apini) acasalam-se com vários machos (poliândricas). Diversas hipóteses têm sido propostas para compreender os benefícios do comportamento extremamente promíscuo das rainhas do gênero Apis. Porém, pouco foi feito para entender as igualmente intrigantes pressões seletivas que mantém a monandria em um grupo tão diverso quanto o das abelhas sem ferrão. No presente estudo, investigamos como as forças seletivas causadas pelas produção de machos diploides (uma consequência natural do sistema de determinação sexual em Hymenoptera) podem afetar o sistema de acasalamento da abelha sem ferrão brasileira, Scaptotrigona depilis. Em particular, rainhas que realizam um acasalamento pareado para o locus sexual (i.e., acasalam com um macho que possui o mesmo alelo sexual) terão o seu fitness reduzido porque elas serão executadas em colônias com 50% de machos diploides entre sua cria diploide. Acasalar-se com mais de um macho aumentam as chances de um acasalamento pareado, mas reduz a proporção de machos diploides na cria. Por meio da manipulação dos favos de cria de colônias experimentais, nós testamos se a mortalidade de rainhas com proporções menores de machos diploides na cria terão taxas de mortalidade similares à de rainhas em colônias com 0% ou 50% de machos diploides na cria. Para isso, obtivemos rainhas produzindo machos diploides nesta espécie e estudamos alguns detalhes de sua biologia, em particular, a viabilidade e morfologia de seus espermatozoides e comportamento fora de suas colônias (Capítulo 1). Nós verificamos se a rainha morre na presença de machos diploides, como este comportamento é predominante na população, e quais os possíveis mecanismos que desencadeiam este comportamento (Capítulo 2). Finalmente, verificamos se a mortalidade de rainhas em colônias com proporções menores de machos diploides na cria (simulando acasalamentos múltiplos) é mais próxima da mortalidade de rainhas em colônias com 0 ou 50% de machos diploides (Capítulo 3). Verificamos que os machos diploides de S. depilis são viáveis e juntam-se a agregados reprodutivos. Seus espermatozoides possuem a mesma viabilidade que os dos machos haploides, porém possuem a cabeça e a cauda maiores. As rainhas são mortas na presença de cerca de 50% de machos diploides na cria e esse comportamento é muito difundido na população estudada, com 100% de morte das rainhas (n=20). O perfil químico de hidrocarbonetos cuticulares dos machos diploides é quantitativamente diferente dos machos haploides, sugerindo que pode conter informações para que a rainha seja executada. No entanto, por meio da contagem de espermatozoides na espermateca de rainhas recém acasaladas e com um ano de idade foi possível observar que o esgotamento de espermatozoides pode afetar a expectativa de vida das rainhas. Isso sugere que o sinal para execução da rainha também pode estar associado a uma quantidade grande de machos emergindo, como um sinal de esgotamento de espermatozoides da rainha, ao invés da ploidia dos machos. Rainhas em colônias com cerca de 25% de machos diploides emergindo foram mortas em proporções semelhantes à de rainhas em colônias com 50% de machos diploides. Isso indica que esse comportamento causa uma pressão seletiva contra os acasalamentos duplos nessa espécie, pois ao acasalar duas vezes a rainha dobra as chances de realizar um acasalamento pareado e a mortalidade é igual à de rainhas que se acasalam uma única vez. / The mating systems of social bees is intriguing. Queens mate within a narrow time window very early in their lives, storing male sperm for their entire lifespan. In bumblebees (Bombini) and stingless bees (Meliponini), queens usually mate with a single male (monandry), while the queens of Apis species (Apini) mate with several males (polyandry). Several hypothesis have been proposed to understand the benefits of the extreme polyandry of honey bees. However, very little have been done in order to understand the equally intriguing selective forces that make such a diverse group as stingless bees as monandrous. In the present study we investigate how the selective force imposed by the chances of producing diploid males (a natural consequence of sex determination system of Hymenoptera) can affect the mating system of the Brazilian stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis. In particular, queens that make a matched mating for the sex locus (i.e., mating with a male with the same sex allele) will have reduced fitness because queens are executed when producing 50% of diploid males amongst her diploid offspring. Mating with more males increase the chances of a matched mating, but reduces the proportion of diploid males on their brood. By manipulating the brood combs of experimental colonies, we tested whether queens with smaller proportions of diploid males (25%) will have mortality rates similar to queens in colonies with 0% or 50% diploid males. For that, we obtained queens producing diploid males and studied details of diploid males biology, in particular their sperm viability and morphology, and their behaviour out of their mother colonies (Chapter 1). We verified how prevalent queen execution behaviour under diploid male production is on this species, and the possible proximate mechanisms that trigger this behaviour (Chapter 2). Finally, we verified whether queen mortality in colonies with lower proportion of diploid males (simulating multiple mating) is closer to colonies with 50% or 0% of diploid males (Chapter 3). We verified that diploid males of S. depilis are viable and can join reproductive aggregations. Their sperm cells have the same viability of haploid males, but have longer sperm head and tail cells. Queens are executed in the presence of 50% of diploid males, and this behaviour is very prevalent on the studied population, with 100% of queen death (n=20). The cuticular hydrocarbon chemical profile of diploid males is quantitatively different from haploid males, suggesting that workers could use it as a signal for queen execution. However, sperm count of newly mated queens and one-year-old queens showed that sperm depletion might affect queen lifespan. This suggests that the signal for queen execution could also be related to a high number of males emergence, as a signal of queen sperm depletion, instead of male ploidy. Queens mortality in colonies with 25% of diploid males was similar to queens in colonies with 50%. This indicates that double mating is selected against regarding this selective pressure, since mating twice will increase the chances of a matched mating and queen mortality will be the same as single mated queens.

In the art of drag, icons of masculinity and femininity are juxtaposed on one body, challenging heteronormativity. The goal of this project was to create a game that provided a safe space for players to negotiate their own identities of gender and sexuality through the framework provided by the game rules and affordances. The research behind this project challenges the criticisms of drag as purely gender representation, identifying drag as a signifier of the presence of the LGBTQ community. By iterating the design throughout the development process, I was able to create opportunities for players to reflect upon gender presentation and be in solidarity with one another. Conversations resulting from the play experience revealed the ability of games to provide a context for players to navigate complex understandings.

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In this thesis I investigate the portrayal of women in Hip Hop as either a sista' or a ho, a dichotomy that mirrors the Freudian Madonna-whore complex prevalent in Western Society. Belittled and disparaged by the sexism implied by this dichotomy, women have become victims of various forms of misogynistic abuse. Queen Latifah stands up against this misogyny, using Hip Hop in the very way it was designed to be used “as a voice for the disenfranchised“ speaking out against the sexism in Hip Hop in the same way African American males use Hip Hop against White mainstream society. She thus challenges the sista'-ho dichotomy and becomes empowered to decry gender discrimination in the same way African American males become empowered to denounce racism through the performance of Hip Hop.

Queen Anne Boleyn (~1507-1536) failed to meet social norms during her time as Queen Consort to Henry VIII (1491-1548). By tracing concepts of queenship through the works of Chrétien de Troyes, Andreas Capellanus, Thomas Malory, and Juan Luis Vives this thesis demonstrates how Anne united the office of queen and mistress to bring her downfall and introduce a new construct of queenship.

Pesticides, poor nutrition, parasites and diseases work synergistically to contribute to the decline of the honey bee. Heritable sub-lethal behavior/immune effects may also contribute to the decline. Maternal stress is a common source of heritable immune/behavior deficits in many species. A stressed honey bee queen has the potential to pass such deficits on to worker bees. Using a repeated measures design, this study will determine whether the health of worker bee is reduced by a cold stress on the queen by analyzing egg hatch rate and protein content, emergence rate, and adult aggression and immune function for offspring laid before and after the stressor. Results show that queen stress influences egg hatching rate and emergence rate but does not impact egg protein content, adult offspring immune function or aggressive behavior.

Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) utilized art in many ways to promote herself and assert power in Baroque Europe. Previous scholars have addressed either Christina’s use of art to safeguard authority as Swedish regnant, or her expressions of sovereignty as an erstwhile Protestant queen in Rome, but no scholarship to date has addressed the topic of how Christina’s patronage developed, or explored how motifs employed early on later reappeared. This dissertation brings together both sides of the equation to provide a comprehensive understanding of how Queen Christina’s patronage developed in Stockholm, and how her approach evolved as she became a fixture in Rome. The deployment of the arts was necessary to assert Christina’s authority in a patriarchal environment and ultimately, to politically legitimize herself as an independent royal woman. An initial review of royal imagery of her father King Gustav II Adolf (1594-1632) provides the background for examination of early patronage promoting Christina, which drew upon Gustav’s precedents while beginning to establish her as a majestic leader in her own right. Originally the queen’s autonomy was limited by a constitutional rewrite as others steered her image for their own benefit, but Christina matured to make her own choices and developed an approach to patronage that continued throughout her life. My research contributes to our understanding of Christina’s development as art patron by examining commissions that counteract this administrative system that restrained her sovereignty. Portraits from her majority rule relied on iconography and visual rhetoric to influence a select audience, while her coronation and abdication proceedings, by contrast, were multisensory public events that broadly proclaimed her capacity to rule. Hence my analysis ranges from the subtle reading of particular images to taking stock of the language of sheer pageantry of those more public visual displays. After abdication Queen Christina had virtually no political clout, but as dowager regnant, she wielded art and patronage to maintain social standing and power. My research considers how Christina deployed the arts to craft her public persona and express her individuality within the male-dominated political structure of the Vatican even as others played off her remarkable abdication with patronage of their own. Christina’s approach was based on precedents developed in Sweden, and she applied them to her Roman situation with varied success. Through many challenges, scandals, and adversities, art was a potent vehicle both for Christina and for those around her to capitalize on her unique status in the history of Baroque Europe.

Este artículo aborda la subtitulación en castellano del programa de televisión de realidad RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) mediante un análi-sis porcentual de la presencia de rasgos microtextuales relativos al camp y la manera en que estos fueron traducidos en las versiones publicadas en Netflix y en el grupo de Facebook RPDR Venezuela. El artículo inicia con una elaboración sobre el camp (una sensibilidad estética comúnmente asociada con la identidad gay y difundida en espacios anglófonos) y el camp talk como categorías de estudio para la traductología. Más adelante se presentan los resultados del análisis de los subtítulos de dos episodios del programa de televisión. Finalmente, la discusión sobre los resultados alcances sobre el papel de la traducción en los procesos de aculturación relacionados al camp, así como sobre las nuevas funciones sociales de la subtitulación. / This article addresses Spanish subtitling for the reality television show RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR), which has been aired in the United States since 2009, analyzing the presence of specific microtextual features of camp (an aesthetic sensibility present in English-speaking spaces that is generally associated with homosexual identity) and of the manner in which these features have been translated into the Spanish subtitled versions found on Netflix and produced by the Facebook group RuPaul’s Drag Race Venezuela. The article begins with a description of the importance of researching camp talk in the context of Translation Studies and continues with an analysis of subtitles from two of the show’s episodes. Finally, results are discussed concerning the scope of translation’s role in camp-related acculturation processes, and new social functions for subtitling are considered. / Revisión pór pares

Portia serves as a complex and often underestimated character in William Shakespeare's controversial comedy The Merchant of Venice. Using the critical methodologies of New Historicism and feminism, this thesis explores Portia's representation of Elizabeth Tudor, Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. Striking similarities exist between character and Queen, including physical description, suitors, marriage issues, and rhetoric. In addition, the tripartite marriage at the play's conclusion among Portia, Bassanio, and Antonio represents the relationship Elizabeth Tudor formed between her merchant class and her aristocracy. Shylock serves as a representation of a generic or perhaps Catholic threat to England during the early modern era. Moreover, by examining Portia's language in the trial scene, the play invites audiences to read her as a representative of the learned Renaissance woman, placing special emphasis on the dialectical and rhetorical elements of the language trivium in classical studies. Finally, through a close reading of the mercantile language in the text, Portia can be interpreted as the merchant of the play's title.