Definindo um Sistema de Monitoramento em Tempo real para o Transporte Público da Cidade de Manaus

The management of public transportation suffers from the difficultyof predicting population growth and consequently meet its demandsin terms of quality and safety. With regard to safety, several computersystems have emerged to help prevent and treat transportproblems, such as detour of routes and speeding. However, in thecontext of the Manaus city, these systems cannot: (a) detect specificobjects (firearms, knives, among others) to identify assaults; and (b)identify overcrowding in means of transportation. The inclusion ofthese functionalities with the above mentioned ones may allow accessto more information to subsidize decision making and improvethe quality of security offered by the public transportation service.This article presents a proposal for an intelligent system to monitorthe safety of a bus related to the above mentioned points. In orderto raise the requirements and propose the graphical interface of thesystem, the techniques of benchmarking and focus group were used.The prototype presented allows simulating how the informationwould be presented to those responsible for monitoring the bus,in addition to generating reports for monitoring the history of themeans of transport and to support decision making regarding thesafety of passengers and servers

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 Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae).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