286 Partnering and engaging in Indiana Communities through listening sessions and data sharing: successes of Connection IN Health by Dennis Savaiano, Sarah Wiehe, Gina Claxton, Karen Hinshaw

“…Our methods of county engagement include surveying the broad community, conducting listening sessions with key community stakeholders, compiling, analyzing and sharing data, collaborating with existing local coalitions, assessing community readiness and suggesting evidence-based practices to implement. …”
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Development of a Community-Sensitive Strategy to Increase Availability of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables in Nashville’s Urban Food Deserts, 2010–2012 by Celia Larson, PhD, Alisa Haushalter, DNP, RN, Tracy Buck, MS, RD, David Campbell, MS, Trevor Henderson, David Schlundt, PhD

“…Background Food deserts, areas that lack full-service grocery stores, may contribute to rising rates of obesity and chronic diseases among low-income and racial/ethnic minority residents. …”
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Estimating the density of a small population of leopards Panthera pardus in central Iran using multi-session photographic‐sampling data by Farhadinia, M, Behnoud, P, Hobeali, K, Mousavi, SJ, Hosseini-Zavarei, F, Gholikhani, N, Akbari, H, Braczkowski, A, Eslami, M, Moghadas, P, Macdonald, DW

“…Spatially explicit capture–recapture (SECR) methodology is a widely accepted population density estimation tool to monitor populations of large carnivores and it incorporates animal movement in the statistical estimation process. We employed multi-session maximum-likelihood SECR modeling to estimate the density of a small population of leopard in a mountainous environment surrounded by deserts in central Iran. …”

An Intentional Approach to Achieving Learning Outcomes during a Youth Leadership Residential Program by Jeremy Green, Jamie Davis

“…The High Desert Leadership Retreat (HDLR) is an annual four-day youth conference which incorporates positive youth development practices to build life skills and increase youth leadership capacity. …”
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Co-design and co-simulation for engineering systems: insights from the Sustainable Infrastructure Planning Game by Paul T. Grogan

“…Three role players create a strategic infrastructure plan for agricultural, water and energy sectors to meet sustainability objectives for a growing and urbaninzing population in a fictional desert nation. An observational study conducts 15 co-design sessions to understand underlying dynamics between actors and how co-simulation capabilities influence design outcomes. …”
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Copyright Buddies: Cultivating Teamwork to Support Our Copyright Journey by Susan E. Beck, Norice Lee

“…-Mexico border region is somewhat of a information resource desert, with few academic libraries and librarians nearby to learn from and lean on. …”
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An Open-Source Privacy-Preserving Large-Scale Mobile Framework for Cardiovascular Health Monitoring and Intervention Planning With an Urban African American Population of Young Adu... by Gari Clifford, Tony Nguyen, Corey Shaw, Brittney Newton, Sherilyn Francis, Mohsen Salari, Chad Evans, Camara Jones, Tabia Henry Akintobi, Herman Taylor Jr

“…MethodsUrban African Americans, aged 18 to 29 years (n=505), participated in a series of co-design sessions to develop MOYO prototypes (ie, HealthTech Events). …”
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The structure of conservation : experiments in representing design knowledge for arid lands design by Bennett, Andrew M. (Andrew Michael)

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Evaluating the implementation of Nuevo Amanecer-II in rural community settings using mixed methods and equity frameworks by Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, Anita L. Stewart, Carmen Ortiz, Helen Palomino, Alma Torres-Nguyen, LaVerne Coleman, Alia Alhomsi, Stephanie Quintero, Jackie Bonilla, Veronica Santana-Ufret, Anna María Nápoles

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Doppler identified venous congestion in septic shock: protocol for an international, multi-centre prospective cohort study (Andromeda-VEXUS) by Bram Rochwerg, Kimberley Lewis, John Basmaji, Jan Bakker, Ross Prager, Robert Arntfield, Michael Pratte, Eduardo Argaiz, Philippe Rola, William Beaubien-Souligny, André Y Denault, Korbin Haycock, Francisco Miralles Aguiar, Gustavo Ospina-Tascon, Nicolas Orozco, Ibrahim Quazi, Eduardo Kattan, Glenn Hernandez

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Could Egeria have seen the “Parthenion” sea from the Top of Mount Sinai? by Fabio Crosilla

“…In the subsequent discussion session, two hypotheses raised about the location of Mount Sinai climbed by Egeria: Gebel Musa, in the South of the Sinai Peninsula and Har Karkom, in the Negev desert, proposed some decades ago by Emmanuel Anati, as an alternative location hypothesis of Mount Sinai. …”
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Parliamentary democracy in Bangladesh: an evaluation of the parliament during 1996-2009 by Moniruzzaman, Md.

“…This is mainly because the ruling parties deliberately bypass parliament, while the opposition deserts it. The parliament has been dysfunctional for more than half of its tenure. …”
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A Teutonic stronghold in the Carpathian Mountains by Eugen S. Teodor, András Sófalvi, Dan Ștefan, Răzvan Bolba

“…Hidden in dense forests, they have been deserted and forgotten, not being recorded in any historical accounts. …”
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Renewable Energy Sources and the New Paradigm in Energy Engineering by Eden Mamut

“…Passing from one session to another, there were several aspects that were confusing me. …”
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Addressing the Maternal Mental Health Crisis Through a Novel Tech-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Driven Perinatal Collaborative Care Model by Bridget McKinney

“…If needed, enrolled moms can request longer virtual coaching sessions of 50 minutes with certified perinatal mental health coaches, who focus on current issues and how to move forward and feel better, accomplished through cognitive behavioral coaching techniques.[42] The platform schedules automated text messages containing educational content. …”
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Foresight Management of National Oil and Gas Industry Development by Yelena Petrenko, Igor Denisov, Oleg Metsik

“…The main characteristic of the future of the oil and gas industry in Kazakhstan is a deserted production, where the production process is fully automated and robotic. …”
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