Doadores de medula óssea entre docentes de medicina e ciências exatas: há informação suficiente?

Bone marrow graft (BMG) is a procedure to treat not only genetic and onco-hematological conditions, but also some solid tumors. New donors have been intensively recruited through campaigns organized by several organs and charities. This work aimed to assess the degree of information about organ transplantation, specially BMG, among lecturers from different fields of expertise from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Method: sixty lecturers from the School of Medicine (SM) and 60 lecturers from the Institute of Sciences (ICE) voluntarily and individually answered a nine-question questionnaire. Results: among SM lecturers and ICE ones 23/60 (38.33%) and 44/60 (73.33%) respectively, did not know the necessary procedures to become a donor and among. Do not belong to the National Registry of Bone Marrow Donors 58/60 (96.66%) of the SM lectures and 55/57 (96.49%) of the ICE ones. Lack of opportunity (37.20%) is some of the reasons in the SM, with lack of information (39.62%) as the main reasons cited in the ICE. Conclusion: organ donation, chiefly BMG, is an issue about which a sizeable number of lecturers lack information. Effective measures to popularize the issue, besides media campaigns, should be implemented to increase the number of donors.O transplante de medula óssea (TMO) é um procedimento capaz de tratar diversas patologias onco-hematogênicas, genéticas e alguns casos de tumores sólidos. Com o apoio de diferentes órgãos e Organizações Não Governamentais - ONGs, vêm sendo realizadas inúmeras campanhas de conscientização e cadastro de novos doadores. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar o grau de informação sobre transplantes de órgãos, em especial a medula óssea, entre docentes de diferentes áreas de atuação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF). Método: estudo descritivo com aplicação de um questionário composto de nove perguntas. Participaram da pesquisa 60 docentes da Faculdade de Medicina (FM) e 60 do Instituto de Ciências Exatas (ICE). Resultados: entre docentes da FM, 23/60 (38,33%) desconhecem as atitudes que devem ser tomadas para se tornar um doador de MO, no ICE esse índice é de 44/60 (73,33%). Não estão cadastrados no Registro Nacional dos Doadores de Medula Óssea 58/60 (96,66%) dos entrevistados da FM e 55/57 (96,49%) do ICE. Dentre os motivos, destaca-se na FM a falta de oportunidade – 16/43 (37,2%), e no ICE, a falta de informação – 21/53 (39,62%). Conclusões: É alto o índice de desinformação entre os docentes da FM e do ICE da UFJF em relação à doação de órgãos, principalmente de medula óssea. Assim, medidas efetivas de informação sobre o tema além das atuais campanhas na mídia, e oferta de maior oportunidade para efetiva doação devem ser implementadas para aumentar o número de doadores

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data

The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity