This text is a report on the experience of outreach project Observatory Democracy, by implementing Youth Parliament in Alfenas / MG. The aimed to enhance spaces for training and political democratic education human rights education, articulating actions through Parliament. Its methodology consisted planning sharing workshops, lectures, plenary sessions informational materials partnership with c...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of given-new ordering on word order change and topic marker WA, using a self-paced reading task. The results demonstrated that OACCSNOMV is sensitive to given-new information, but SNOMOACCV, STOPOACCV, and OTOPSNOMV are not. This fact can be explained by the Markedness Principle for Discourse Rule Violation (Kuno, 1987: 212): both SNOMOA...

Worldwide urbanization has significantly changed the landscape in recent decades, which resulted in an urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. This study quantitatively analyzed the spatiotemporal changes of the urban heat island (UHI) of Zhangzhou estuary city of China, in the context of urbanisation using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) thermal images acquire...