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This paper proposes a discussion about open education, based on the concept of rhizome, articulated by Deleuze and Guattari in “A Thousand Plateaus”, and the "wandering lines", present in theFernand Deligny's cartography in "The arachnean and other texts". The paper explores how teachers can act as “Transformative Intellectuals” in the cyberculture context, opposing the banking model of education, adopting a critical perspective of teaching in the utilization of digital culture processes in their Pedagogical practices. In this regard, the discussion ends by suggesting a reflection about the potential of Open Educational Resources (OER) and how they can be considered possibilities for wandering and deterritorialization in the context of Brazilian education.

The term "Continuing Education" (CE) appears in Brazilian official documents widely and generally, including any kind of activity that will contribute to the professional performance. Many of these official documents name CE programmes those that train teachers from municipal and state school systems (those teachers called lay teachers), those without secondary and graduated levels. This paper aims at contextualizing and discussing the continuing education of foreign language teachers (EFL) of English language in Brazil. The theoretical-methodological trajectory of this study is based on discourse theories and applied linguistics studies. Through the analysis of the discourses circulating in official documents about the CE, it is possible to state, from the presented scenario, that several Brazilian public authorities approve the CE in general context, but the encouragements do not seem to reach all areas of knowledge. Through this perspective, it is worth asking how have the proposals for continuing education in foreign languages in Brazil been developed and what kind of actions have been put into practice. Reflections arising from this paper reveal that the laws are formed by historical processes and are the result of social, political and ideological negotiations, which seem to give opportunities for changes, however end up been limited by representations about what means to teach and learn a foreign language in the Brazilian context. Summing up, from these perspectives about continuing education, it is important to bring such discussions to the field of applied linguistics to EFL teaching to produce reflections for this field.

Abstract: This paper aims to describe a distance education experience that took place in a teaching practicum module of PARFOR (National Plan for Educating Primary and Secondary School Teachers) at the Federal University of Uberlândia. With the aim of promoting a discussion about race and ethnicity in Brazil, the materials and activities of this module were devised in a critical literacy perspective (KNOBEL AND LANKSHEAR, 2011; COPE AND KALANTZIS, 2012). The paper begins with a discussion of relevant issues concerning learning and literacy in distance education today, and then moves on to a brief description of this teaching practicum module. After an analysis of two tasks from this module, we conclude by reflecting on some of the shortcomings regarding the implementation of the course, and suggesting ways in which they could be overcome.

ABSTRACT The use of endo-exo prosthesis is an alternative to improve the quality of life of amputees, allowing correct distribution of body weight, reducing skin problems and pain related to the implant, and reducing lameness. The aim of this paper is to report the use of a fixed bilateral endo-exo femur prostheses in a cat with amputation prior to treatment. The endoprostheses were made with titanium and the exoprostheses were made with 3D printing technology. A longitudinal craniolateral surgical approach was used and the skin incision was made over the knee-joint, then fascia lata incision, followed by biceps femoris and vastus lateralis muscles retraction, incision through the joint capsule to expose the tibiofemoral joint, disarticulation, and tibia and fibula removal. Afterwards, a femoral leveling osteotomy and insertion of the implant in the medullary canal were performed, being attached in the cis and trans cortical bone. The patient was evaluated in the immediate post-operative and periodically thereafter, showing satisfactory results, without macroscopic signs of rejection, wound dehiscence or infection, fracture, or injury of limbs, and presented adapted walking. Furthermore, it was observed the return to common behaviors for the species.

Abstract: Global media have reported widely on the (in)actions of the Brazilian federal government, particularly of president Jair Bolsonaro, in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper aims to describe media representations in terms of their transitivity choices (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004) and to discuss how emerged language patterns may be indicative of particular ways life and death have been controlled in terms of a coupled conceptualization between biopolitics (FOUCAULT, 2008) and necropolitics (MBEMBE, 2019) which we call necrobiopolitics. Overall results indicate how the death of babies and mothers, the collapse of hospital and health service, the spike in hunger, the dismissal of the severity of the pandemic, and the purposeful delay in purchasing vaccines are instrumental in the way president Jair Bolsonaro has implemented a political agenda that defines whose lives are worthy and whose deaths are tolerated. Keywords: global media; COVID-19; Brazil; transitivity; necrobiopolitics. Resumo: A mídia global tem noticiado amplamente as (in)ações do governo federal brasileiro, em particular do presidente Jair Bolsonaro, no enfrentamento da pandemia de COVID-19. Este artigo objetiva descrever representações midiáticas em termos de suas escolhas de transitividade (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004) e discutir como os padrões de linguagem emergentes podem ser indicativos de maneiras particulares de como a vida e a morte foram controladas em termos de uma conceituação combinada entre biopolítica (FOUCAULT, 2008) e necropolítica (MBEMBE, 2019) que chamamos de necrobiopolítica. Os resultados gerais indicam como a morte de bebês e de mães, o colapso da rede de hospitais e do serviço de saúde, o aumento da fome, a negação da gravidade da pandemia e o atraso proposital na compra de vacinas são fundamentais na forma como o presidente Jair Bolsonaro implementou uma agenda política que define quais vidas têm valor e quais mortes são toleradas. Palavras-chave: mídia global; COVID-19; Brasil; transitividade; necrobiopolítica.

Resumo: Este artigo tem o objetivo de analisar a presença de múltiplos cronotopos manifestados no depoimento de alunas de pós-graduação a respeito do processo da escrita de suas dissertações e tese. Com base na teoria bakhtiniana e guiado pela análise metalinguística (BAKHTIN, [1975] 2002; [1924] 2011; VOLOCHÍNOV, [1929] 2017), o trabalho evidencia três cronotopos que constituem e transformam a experiência de se escrever na pós-graduação. Esses apontamentos propõem a perspectiva de que há diversos fatores que colidem com essa atividade linguístico-discursiva, devendo-se tornar pauta conjunta à formação de novos pesquisadores. Palavras-chave: cronotopo; escrita acadêmica; pós-graduação. Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the presence of multiple chronotopes manifested in the testimony of graduate students about the writing process of their dissertations and theses. Based on Bakhtinian theory and guided by the metalinguistic analysis (BAKHTIN, [1975] 2002; [1924] 2011; VOLÓCHINOV, [1929] 2017), the work highlights three chronotopes that constitute and transform the experience of writing in graduate context. These notes propose the perspective that there are different factors that collide with this linguistic-discursive activity, which should become a joint agenda for the new researcher’s formation. Keywords: chronotope; academic writing; graduation school.

Resumo: O estado do Rio de Janeiro soma o maior número de civis mortos (negros, em sua maioria) durante incursões policiais nas favelas. Contra essa violência e em busca de justiça, os familiares das vítimas têm se engajado em movimentos sociais como a Rede de Comunidades e Movimentos contra a Violência. Este artigo estuda o que chamo de narrativas de engajamento veiculadas nas manifestações por esses familiares, especialmente as mães, objetivando compreender a importância da narrativa para a transformação do luto dessas mulheres em ação política. A metodologia engloba a perspectiva qualitativa-interpretativista de pesquisa, com observação participante. Os dados foram gerados nas manifestações organizadas pela Rede. A análise foi orientada pela compreensão da narrativa como prática discursivo-interacional que organiza a experiência humana e sugere a existência de uma espécie de “padrão” que organiza as narrativas de engajamento dos participantes da Rede. A análise ainda identifica dois mecanismos discursivos entrelaçados: i) a racionalização dos eventos que levaram à morte do filho por meio de sistemas de coerência; ii) um movimento espiral que relaciona os eventos de ordem micro e macro na narrativa. O artigo finaliza destacando as narrativas de engajamento enquanto ferramenta desse movimento social para reivindicar suas demandas na esfera pública e resistir ao racismo estrutural. Palavras-chave: narrativa; movimentos sociais, violência policial. Abstract: Rio de Janeiro is the state with the highest number of homicides due to police brutality (largely Black people). Faced with this situation and seeking justice, the victims’ mothers engage in social movements such as the Rede de Comunidades e Movimentos contra a Violência. This paper focuses on what I will refer to as the narratives of engagement of these family members, especially mothers. It aims to understand how important narratives are for these women in the process of transforming grief into political action. The methodology encompasses a qualitative-interpretative research approach with participant observation. The data was generated in the protests organized by the Rede. The analysis was guided by the notion of narrative as a discursive and interactional practice which organizes human experience. Such practice also serves as a tool for social movements to make demands of the state. The analysis suggests the existence of a pattern that organizes the narratives of engagement; it further identifies two discursive mechanisms that interact with each other: i) the rationalization of events leading to the death of their children by using coherence systems; ii) a spiral movement that relates microsocial and macrosocial events in the narrative. The article concludes by highlighting narratives of engagement as a tool for this social movement to raise its demands in the public sphere, as well as a way of resisting structural racism. Keywords: narrative; social movements; police violence.

Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é propor uma descrição dos três processos de sândi vocálico externo no português vernacular de São Tomé (PST): a degeminação (DG), a elisão (EL) e a ditongação (DT). A partir de um corpus composto por 113 sentenças distintas que apresentavam o encontro vocálico em fronteira de palavra (V#V), analisamos a produção de seis informantes santomenses, totalizando 216 ocorrências por falante ou 1315 tokens totais. Com auxílio do Praat, inspecionamos os dados e mensuramos o encontro vocálico e, quando este era desfeito, a vogal resultante, de modo a detectarmos a implementação dos fenômenos. Esses, por sua vez, também foram analisados conforme diferentes fronteiras (palavra e frase fonológica; sintagma entoacional) e proeminências prosódicas (lexical e de palavra fonológica), além de serem considerados fatores segmentais como a qualidade vocálica dos segmentos-alvo. Constatamos que os três processos são produtivos no PST: 32% DG; 36% EL; 52.5% DT. Ademais, ocorrem em diferentes fronteiras prosódicas: palavra fonológica (ω + ω), frase fonológica (ϕ + ϕ), e, no caso da ditongação, entre sintagmas entoacionas (IP+IP) desde que sua fronteira não seja delimitada por pausa. Em relação ao acento, a proeminência da frase fonológica foi o fator preponderante para impedir os processos em evidência, bloqueando a degeminação, caso o acento da segunda vogal coincidisse com o acento da frase fonológica. Já para a elisão e para a ditongação, o bloqueio ocorreu quando as duas vogais portavam o acento da frase fonológica. Palavras-chave: Sândi; Fonologia; Português; Elisão; Degeminação; Ditongação. Abstract: The aim of this paper is to propose a description of three processes of external vowel sandhi in São Tomé vernacular Portuguese (PST): degemination (DG), elision (EL) and diphthongization (DT). All three processes are found in PST: 32% DG; 36% EL; 52.5% DT. Working with six Santomean informants, we analyzed a corpus of 113 sentences with vowel encounters in word boundaries (V#V). Then, we measured the duration of vowel encounters or the single resulting vowel when the encounter was undone. Factors such as the nature of the prosodic boundaries (phonological word, phonological phrase, and intonational phrase), prosodic stress (lexical and phonological word), and vowel quality are crucial to implementing sandhi processes. However, they occur in different prosodic settings: diphthongization occurs between intonation phrases (IP+IP) insofar their boundary is not limited by a pause. In contrast, elision and degemination occur in phonological word boundaries (ω + ω) and phonological phrase boundaries (ϕ + ϕ). The prominence of the phonological phrase was the preponderant factor in preventing all processes, blocking degemination whenever phonological phrase stress matches with a stressed second vowel. For elision and diphthongization, sandhi was blocked when two stressed vowels co-occurred with the stress of a phonological phrase. Keywords: External vowel sandhi; Phonology; Portuguese; Degemination; Elision; Diphthongization.

ABSTRACT The paper intends to build a dialogue between Nāgārjuna and Schelling on Self, world, and standpoints, taking as main references Nāgārjuna's The Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way and Schelling's Philosophical Letters on Dogmatism and Criticism. Whereas Nāgārjuna criticizes the substantialization of beings by resorting to the discourse of the dependent co-origination in order to overcome suffering, Schelling, on his turn, refutes the fanaticism based on dogmatism's tenets in favor of the criticism interpreted according to its spirit, and not according to its letter, in order to emancipate humanity. Starting with a succint contextualization of the Eastern and Western philosophical discourse, proceeding further to discuss the philosophies of both thinkers, the paper is concluded by assessing their theories.

Expanding propositions of Souza Júnior (2015c), the present paper analyses the propagation patterns of media/linguistic practices, encapsulated in selfies, which the Brazilian Electoral Justice termed a ‘forbidden act’ – whenever selfies were to be taken inside voting booths and/or posted online from there, during the 2014 Brazilian elections. Suggesting a bottom-up Linguistics and social-semiotics-oriented analysis, seeking to expand the investigative limits of a pictorial and Communication-oriented analysis presented in Shifman (2014), the paper, firstly, examined the selfie post that originated the digital event #selfienaurna (i.e. selfie in the voting booth). Secondly, the article defined that post’s initial compositional pattern in terms of: a) multimodal construction (its visual syntax); b) multimodal proposition (the purpose the purpose expressed through that picture). Then, the methodology of “propagatory analysis” (SOUZA JÚNIOR, 2014) was used to confront the initial pattern with other occurrences found in the corpus. Carrying out a “relational analysis” (SOUZA JÚNIOR, 2015a), this study investigated how the pattern that generated #selfienaurna would evolve, namely: mostly homogeneously – positioning found in Dawkins (1979, 1982); and followed by Recuero (2006) – or heterogeneously - proposition presented in Dennett (1995); and corroborated in Souza Júnior (2014, 2015a). Results showed that the propagation of #selfienaurna evolved mostly heterogeneously, regarding the items investigated.

ABSTRACT This paper analyses conceptualizations of digital technology use that are aligned with sociocultural pedagogies of language learning, proposing a framework for developing sociocultural language pedagogies through digital technology use and presenting the language education workshops offered for high school students as embodying the principles of such a perspective. The paper is grounded on a sociocultural perspective of learning. Data gathering occurred in the New Talents Program, which is the background of the instructional material developed for the immersion week “Digital technologies and English language learning”. We conclude by discussing some opportunities and challenges for sociocultural pedagogies of language learning through digital literacies.

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Resumo: O presente artigo trata da posposição do indefinido “algum” em relação ao nome substantivo para instanciar a polaridade negativa no sintagma nominal na diacronia da língua portuguesa, buscando compreender: (i) a natureza da estrutura [N+algum] em textos portugueses do século XVI, XVII, XVIII e XIX, e em textos brasileiros do século XIX; e (ii) o processo de gramaticalização da estrutura como um Item de polaridade Negativa (IPN) na história da língua. Verificou-se que a estrutura [N+algum], com inversão, nos séculos XVI e XVII, Português Clássico (PCL), podia ser usada com valor não negativo e que outros elementos podiam ocorrer no interior do sintagma nominal, inclusive com a possibilidade da flexão e não adjacência entre o nome e o indefinido. Tais fatos corroboraram a hipótese de que no PCL a estrutura [N+algum] não estava gramaticalizada como um IPN e o valor negativo era valorado pela presença de um operador de negação sentencial, preposição ou conjunção negativa em domínio sintático superior. Conclui-se que o indefinido no PCL realiza o núcleo da categoria determinante (D) mesmo nas estruturas com inversão, sendo estas derivadas do movimento da parte lexical do sintagma à posição de especificador do sintagma determinante (DP, do inglês Determiner Phrase) fato que contempla as propriedades de categoria D de “algum” no PCL. Palavras-chave: sintagma nominal; indefinido “algum”; polaridade negativa. Abstract: The present paper deals with the posposition of the indefinite “algum” (some) in relation to the noun to instantiate the negative polarity in the nominal phrase in the Portuguese language diachrony, seeking to understand: (i) the nature of the structure [N+algum] in sixteenth-, seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Portuguese texts, and in nineteenth-century Brazilian texts; and (ii) the process of grammaticalization of the structure as a Negative Polarity Item (IPN, in Portuguese Item de Polaridade Negativa) in the history of the language. It has been found that the structure [N+algum], with inversion, in the 16th and 17th centuries, Classical Portuguese (PCL, in Portuguese Português Clássico), could be used with non-negative value and that other elements could occur in a noun phrase (NP), including the possibility of inflection and non-adjacency between the noun and the indefinite. Such facts supported the hypothesis that in PCL the structure [N+algum] was not grammaticalized as an IPN and the negative value was valued by the presence of a sentential negation operator, preposition or negative conjunction in a higher syntactic domain. It has been concluded that the indefinite in PCL is a determiner (D) even in structures with inversion, these being derived from the movement of the lexical part of the phrase to the specifier position of Determiner Phrase (DP) a fact that contemplates the D properties of “algum” in PCL. Keywords: noun phrase; indefinite “algum”(“some”); negative polarity.

Abstract: In this paper, I claim that a parametric view on change in pro-drop does not contradict the fact that not all the Partial Null Subject (PNS) languages display identical properties. I show that the contingent nature of diachronic change is the reason for the slight differences between PNS languages. Modern Russian (MR) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) are two PNS languages that developed from Consistent Null Subject antecessors (Old Russian and European Portuguese) independently from each other. I account for the change in pro-drop experienced by these two languages, analyzing the properties usually related to the null subject parameter (verbal inflection, clitics, null objects, embedded and arbitrary null subjects), and show that the final parametric setting in both MR and BP was almost identical, with small differences that can be attributed to the different initial conditions for the change. Keywords: Pro-drop; null subjects; null objects; clitics; Consistent Null Subject languages; Partial Null Subject languages; Brazilian Portuguese; European Portuguese; Modern Russian; Old Russian. Resumo: Neste artigo, afirmo que uma visão paramétrica sobre a mudança em pro-drop não está em conflito com o fato de que nem todas as línguas de sujeito nulo parcial (PNS) apresentam propriedades idênticas. Mostro que a natureza contingente da mudança diacrônica é a razão para as pequenas diferenças entre as línguas PNS. O russo moderno (MR) e o português brasileiro (BP) são duas línguas PNS que se desenvolveram a partir dos antecessores de sujeito nulo consistente (antigo russo e português europeu) independentemente uma da outra. Relato a mudança de pro-drop experimentada por essas duas línguas, analisando as propriedades geralmente relacionadas ao parâmetro de sujeito nulo (inflexão verbal, clíticos, objetos nulos, sujeitos nulos subordinados e arbitrários), e mostro que a configuração paramétrica final em ambas MR e BP foi quase idêntica, com pequenas diferenças que podem ser atribuídas às diferentes condições iniciais para a mudança. Palavras-chave: Pro-drop; sujeitos nulos; objetos nulos; clíticos; línguas de sujeito nulo consistente; línguas de sujeito nulo parcial; português brasileiro; português europeu; russo moderno; russo antigo.

Resumo: Neste trabalho, nosso objetivo é apresentar os resultados de nossas pesquisas sobre o objeto acusativo anafórico na variedade de espanhol de Madri e na variedade do português brasileiro de São Paulo, assim como sugerir uma análise teórica para essas construções a partir dos desenvolvimentos minimalistas (CHOMSKY, 1999, 2000, 2004). Analisamos entrevistas da variedade de espanhol de Madri (CESTERO MANCERA et al. 2014) e do português brasileiro (LIMA-HERNANDES; VICENTE, 2012). Como referencial teórico, aliamos as perspectivas biológica (CHOMSKY, 1981, 1986) e social de língua (LABOV, 2008; WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2009). Observamos a atuação da referencialidade do antecedente, do traço de indefinitude do determinante, da ausência de determinante, da estrutura verbal e do aspecto lexical na possibilidade de elipses na variedade de espanhol de Madri. Em relação à variedade do português brasileiro de São Paulo, observamos objetos nulos quase categóricos e que os pronomes lexicais apresentam restrições na expressão de antecedentes menos referenciais. Esses resultados se assemelham aos de nossa pesquisa anterior (SIMÕES, 2015) e às variedades de espanhol do País Basco (LANDA, 1993) e de Quito (SUÑER; YÉPEZ, 1988). Palavras-chave: espanhol; português brasileiro; objeto acusativo anafórico, variação linguística; concordância de objeto. Abstract: In this paper, our aim is to present the results of our researchs about the anaphoric accusative object in the Spanish variety of Madrid and in the Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo and to propose a theoretical analysis to these constructions based on minimalist developments (CHOMSKY, 1999, 2000, 2004). Interviews of the Spanish variety of Madrid (CESTERO MANCERA et al. 2014) and Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo (LIMA-HERNANDES; VICENTE, 2012) were analysed. Regarding the theoretical approach, the biological (CHOMSKY, 1981, 1986) and social (LABOV, 2008; WEINREICH; LABOV; HERZOG, 2009) perspectives on language were combined. We observed the effect of the antecedent referenciality, of the determinant indefinite features, of the bare nouns, of the structure and lexical aspect of verbs on possibility of elipsis in the Spanish variety of Madrid. Concerning the Brazilian Portuguese variety of São Paulo, the null objects were almost categorical and the lexical pronoun presented restrictions to less referencial antecedents. These results ressemble the tendencies of our previous research (SIMÕES, 2015) and the Spanish varieties of País Vasco (LANDA, 1993) and Quito (SUÑER; YÉPEZ, 1988). Keywords: Spanish; Brazilian Portuguese; anaphoric accusative object; linguistic variation; object agreement.

Resumo: De acordo com Givón (2001) o léxico é um repositório de conceitos relativamente estáveis no tempo, compartilhados socialmente e bem codificados, além de ser organizado em forma de rede, onde conceitos similares estão agrupados próximos uns aos outros. Em viés similar, o lexicólogo Georges Matoré propõe que palavras estabelecem relações associativas entre si e define os conceitos de campos nocionais e palavras-testemunho, elementos em torno dos quais o léxico se organiza. Com o uso de técnicas computacionais como word embeddings, que permitem a representação de palavras como vetores em um espaço vetorial, é possível analisar palavras agrupadas pelos mesmos traços semânticos. Este trabalho se propõe investigar a viabilidade de tais métodos para análise de mudança semântica. Para isso, foram analisadas ocorrências das formas “deus”, “homem”, “mulher”, “pai”, “mae” e “terra” no corpus Tycho Brahe do português. Através do algoritmo Skip-gram foram gerados Word Embeddings, e, posteriormente, visualizações para a rede de relações semânticas de cada palavra em três diferentes recortes temporais. Através das visualizações foram observadas evidências da organização semântica do léxico, além de sua reorganização através do tempo. Palavras-chave: Linguística Computacional; Estudos Diacrônicos; Processamento de Língua Natural; Mudança Linguística; Vetorização de Palavras. Abstract: According to Givón (2001), the lexicon is a repository of concepts which are relatively stable in time, socially shared and well encoded. They are well organized in a network where similar concepts are grouped next to each other. On a similar note, the lexicographer Georges Matoré proposes associative relationships between words and defines the concepts of notional field and testimonial words, which are organizational elements of the lexicon. Using computational techniques such as Word Embeddings, which represent words as vectors in a vector space, it is possible to analyze groupings of words based on their semantic features. This paper aims to explore the viability of such methods in semantic change. The occurrences of the word forms “deus”, “homem”, “mulher”, “pai”, “mae” and “terra” were analyzed in the Tycho Brahe corpus for Portuguese. Word Embeddings were created using the Skip-gram algorithm, and visualizations for a semantic feature network were created for each word in three different time slices. Evidence of the semantic organization of the lexicon and its reorganization was observed through the generated visualizations. Keywords: Computational Linguistics; Diachronic Studies; Natural Language Processing; Linguistic Change; Word Embeddings.

ABSTRACT The beef cattle breeding system in Brazil has been growing more and more in the history of animal production, leading the country to fit into the world scenario as the main exporter of beef. Seeking to increase this efficiency, the objective of this paper is to evaluate factors that affect the confinement of beef cattle, influencing the Profitability and Return of the system, to define values that maximize them. To do so, a database was used. It consisted of the observation of 1961 animals, collected in the commercial confinement of Fazenda Bragança, in the city of Lucas do Rio Verde - MT. Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression models, in which the financial gain, Profitability and Return variables were explained by the variables: race, entry weight and days in confinement, selected by the stepwise method. Based on the results, there is greater financial efficiency for animals that enter the feedlot with greater weight and that remain for 163 days. It is concluded that the entry weight and days in confinement significantly influence the financial efficiency, allowing the adjusted equations to help producers in making decisions regarding the formation of lots and, mainly, in the purchase of animals.

ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to determine the ocular echobiometry and investigate its correlation with cranial and body morphometric parameters in 50 adult Shih Tzu dogs. The echobiometric measurements of the anterior chamber (AC), vitreous chamber (VC), lens axial thickness (LTA), transverse lens thickness (LTT), and axial length of the eyeball (ALE) were obtained by two-dimensional ultrasonography. Morphometric measurements of bizygomatic distance (BDIST), frontal-occipital distance (FOD), withers height (WH), thoracic circumference (TC), and body length (BL) were also obtained. The mean of the AC depth was 2.83±0.50mm, the VC was 9.18±0.54mm, the LTA was 6.42±0.32mm and the LTT was 9.17±1.18mm, while the mean of the ALE was 18.82±0.66mm. There was no correlation between ocular echobiometric variables and cranial and body morphometric variables in adult dogs of the Shih Tzu breed, as well as no significant difference of these variables when considering gender and age of the dogs (p ≥ 0.05).

Abstract Being Spanish one of the most frequent languages of study, this paper aims to analyze, through a SWOT study, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of Spanish for tourism textbooks so as to determine their present and future. In doing so, the authors of this manuscript have carried out a qualitative and quantitative study. After an online discussion with four experienced language teachers, we have elaborated an observation checklist that contributes to the field of study and could serve as a tool to analyse language textbooks. We have applied this observation checklist to analyse ten Spanish for tourism textbooks. Results show that textbooks in this field have been adapted to the new realities of language teaching but still fail to include important elements for the correct development of all the skills.

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