CREATION AND APPLICATION OF A GAMIFIED STRATEGY IN NURSING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Objetivo: presentar la construcción, aplicación y evaluación de una estrategia de gamificación para la enseñanza de metodología científica para estudiantes de graduación en enfermería. Método: diagnóstico de los problemas de la disciplina Metodología Científica del curso de enfermería de la Universidade do Estado do Pará; construcción de la estrategia; aplicación en seis clases a lo largo de tres semestres, entre 2017 y 2018; evaluación de los impactos y aceptación. Resultados: construcción de un sistema de evolución heurística, con impactos en asiduidad y puntualidad y autoevaluación positiva de la estrategia. Consideraciones Finales: la estrategia de gamificación demostró ser eficaz a la mejora del compromiso de los estudiantes de graduación en enfermería y con potencial para ser una herramienta pedagógica innovadora en la enseñanza de enfermería. La adopción de una estructura de evolución heurística distancia esta estrategia de iniciativas artificiales con el uso aislado de elementos de juegos. Se necesita asimismo evaluaciones más estrictas con grupo control.Objetivo: apresentar a construção, aplicação e avaliação de uma estratégia gamificada de ensino de metodologia científica a graduandos de enfermagem.Método: diagnóstico dos problemas da disciplina Metodologia Científica do curso de enfermagem da Universidade do Estado do Pará; construção da estratégia; aplicação em seis turmas ao longo de três semestres, entre 2017 e 2018; avaliação dos impactos e aceitação.Resultados: construção de um sistema de evolução heurístico, com impactos na assiduidade e pontualidade e autoavaliação positiva da estratégia.Considerações Finais: a estratégia gamificada se mostrou eficaz na melhoria do engajamento de graduandos de enfermagem e com potencial para ser uma ferramenta pedagógica inovadora no ensino de enfermagem. A adoção de uma estrutura de evolução heurística distancia esta estratégia de iniciativas artificiais com uso isolado de elementos de jogos. Avaliações mais rígidas, com grupo controle, ainda são necessárias.Objective: to present the construction, application and evaluation of a gamified education strategy of scientific methodology to nursing undergraduate students.Method: diagnosis of the problems of the Scientific Methodology Discipline of the nursing course of the Universidade do Estado do Pará; construction of the strategy; application in six classes over three semesters, between 2017 and 2018; evaluation of the impacts and acceptance.Results: construction of a system of heuristic evolution, with repercussions on assiduity and punctuality and positive self-evaluation of the strategy.Final Considerations: the gamified strategy has proved to be effective in improving the engagement of nursing undergraduate students and with potential to be an innovating pedagogical tool in nursing education. The adoption of a heuristic evolution structure distances this strategy from artificial initiatives with isolated use of game elements. More rigid evaluations, with control group, are still needed

SIMPLY MOTHERS: SHARED ELABORATION OF TECHNOLOGIES ON PRENATAL CARE OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED WOMEN

Objective: To develop educational technologies on prenatal care with and for visually impaired women.Method: A methodological study with a participatory interface and qualitative approach. It was carried out at a Specialized Technical Unit in the municipality of Belém, Pará, Brazil. Data production took place between August and September 2021 with six women. DOSVOX was used as a communication resource for the participants to answer four instruments with a view to developing the technologies. The analysis was of the thematic content type.Results: Women with visual impairment want respect for their autonomy, inclusion, and information from the professionals. The technologies produced point to the specific demands of visually impaired women and to the importance of preserving autonomy during prenatal care.Conclusion: Technologies produced in a participatory way point out women's specific perspectives and needs regarding prenatal care and may support both the nurses' actions in consultations and favor women with visual impairment during prenatal care

SIMPLEMENTE MADRES: CREACIÓN COMPARTIDA DE TECNOLOGÍAS SOBRE EL CONTROL PRENATAL PARA MUJERES CON DISCAPACIDAD VISUAL

Objetivo: Desarrollar tecnologías educativas sobre el control prenatal con y para mujeres con discapacidad visual.Método: Estudio metodológico con interfaz participativa y enfoque cualitativo. Realizado en una Unidad Técnica Especializada de la ciudad de Belém, Pará, Brasil. La producción de datos se realizó entre agosto y septiembre de 2021 con seis mujeres. Se utilizó DOSVOX como recurso de comunicación para que las participantes respondieran a cuatro instrumentos a fin de desarrollar las tecnologías. El análisis fue de contenido temático.Resultados: Las mujeres con discapacidad visual quieren que se respete su autonomía, inclusión e información por parte de los profesionales. Las tecnologías creadas ponen de manifiesto las demandas específicas de las mujeres con discapacidad visual y la importancia de preservar la autonomía durante el control prenatal.Conclusión: Las tecnologías creadas de manera participativa señalan las perspectivas y necesidades específicas de las mujeres con respecto al cuidado prenatal y pueden ayudar a los enfermeros en las consultas y a las mujeres con discapacidad visual durante el control prenatal

SIMPLESMENTE MÃES: CONSTRUÇÃO COMPARTILHADA DE TECNOLOGIAS SOBRE PRÉ-NATAL DE MULHERES COM DEFICIÊNCIA VISUAL

Objetivo: Desenvolver tecnologias educacionais sobre pré-natal com e para mulheres deficientes visuais.Método: Estudo metodológico com interface participativa e abordagem qualitativa. Realizado em uma Unidade Técnica Especializada no município de Belém, Pará, Brasil. A produção de dados ocorreu entre agosto e setembro de 2021 com seis mulheres. Utilizou-se o DOSVOX como recurso de comunicação para que as participantes respondessem quatro instrumentos com vistas ao desenvolvimento das tecnologias. A análise foi de conteúdo temático.Resultados: As mulheres com deficiência visual querem respeito à sua autonomia, inclusão e informação dos profissionais. As tecnologias produzidas apontam as demandas específicas de mulheres com deficiência visual e a importância de preservar a autonomia durante a realização do pré-natal.Conclusão: Tecnologias produzidas de forma participativa apontam perspectivas e necessidades específicas das mulheres sobre o pré-natal e poderão subsidiar tanto o agir dos enfermeiros nas consultas como favorecer mulheres com deficiência visual durante o pré-natal

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear un derstanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5–7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8–11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world’s most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepre sented in biodiversity databases.13–15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may elim inate pieces of the Amazon’s biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological com munities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple or ganism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region’s vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most ne glected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lostinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research

Biodiversity loss is one of the main challenges of our time,1,2 and attempts to address it require a clear understanding of how ecological communities respond to environmental change across time and space.3,4 While the increasing availability of global databases on ecological communities has advanced our knowledge of biodiversity sensitivity to environmental changes,5,6,7 vast areas of the tropics remain understudied.8,9,10,11 In the American tropics, Amazonia stands out as the world's most diverse rainforest and the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity,12 but it remains among the least known forests in America and is often underrepresented in biodiversity databases.13,14,15 To worsen this situation, human-induced modifications16,17 may eliminate pieces of the Amazon's biodiversity puzzle before we can use them to understand how ecological communities are responding. To increase generalization and applicability of biodiversity knowledge,18,19 it is thus crucial to reduce biases in ecological research, particularly in regions projected to face the most pronounced environmental changes. We integrate ecological community metadata of 7,694 sampling sites for multiple organism groups in a machine learning model framework to map the research probability across the Brazilian Amazonia, while identifying the region's vulnerability to environmental change. 15%–18% of the most neglected areas in ecological research are expected to experience severe climate or land use changes by 2050. This means that unless we take immediate action, we will not be able to establish their current status, much less monitor how it is changing and what is being lost

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

Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone

As part of an EU funded project to investigate the factors influencing bone preservation in the archaeological record, more than 250 bones from 41 archaeological sites in five countries spanning four climatic regions were studied for diagenetic alteration. Sites were selected to cover a range of environmental conditions and archaeological contexts. Microscopic and physical (mercury intrusion porosimetry) analyses of these bones revealed that the majority (68%) had suffered microbial attack. Furthermore, significant differences were found between animal and human bone in both the state of preservation and the type of microbial attack present. These differences in preservation might result from differences in early taphonomy of the bones. © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved