Na Geografia existem diversos recursos didáticos que podem ser instrumentos de mediação no estudo do espaço geográfico, o mais conhecido deles é globo terrestre. Como objetivo trabalho, queremos demonstrar a importância processo construção terrestre baixo custo e sua utilização como mediador ensino nas aulas 6º ano. No decorrer processo, os estudantes construíram um partir planisfério assim, co...

The age at which an animal is classified as geriatric can be based on chronological, physiologic or functional age. Physiological age differs between horses and depends on their use, genetic and environmental factors. Geriatric horses and ponies make up an increasing percentage of the equine population and there is some evidence the more aged horses are being presented for veterinary treatment....

Morphological variation of the spermatheca in the garden snail Cantareus aspersus. Spermathecal morphology is known to play an important role in postcopulatory sexual selection of many invertebrates. In helicid land snails, the spermatheca is subdivided into tubules, whose number is sometimes subject to a strong inter-individual variation. Significance of this variation for postcopulatory sexua...

The present paper investigates the phenomenon of antonym canonicity by providing new behavioural and distributional evidence on Italian adjectives. Previous studies have showed that some pairs of antonyms are perceived to be better examples of opposition than others, and are so considered representative of the whole category (e.g., Deese, 1964; Murphy, 2003; Paradis et al., 2009). Our goal is t...

Philosophically, the notion of ontology is related to the nature of categories as we perceive them. In this paper, the notion of ontology is more specifically related to the nature of lexical knowledge and thereby also to the debate concerning the linguistic/encyclopaedic divide. Ontological knowledge, as it is understood here, is conceptual in nature. It is neither totally part of what is trad...

Federal do Pampa (UNIPAMPA), Itaqui, RS, Brasil (e-mail: [email protected]). ** Engenheira Biotecnológica, Pesquisadora, Empresa Depsiextracta Biological Technologies-Lda, Taipadas-Canha, Portugal (e-mail: [email protected]). *** Engenheiro Ambiental, Doutorando em Ciência do Sistema Terrestre, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Br...