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An overview of digitalization for the building-to-grid ecosystem
Authors: Ma Zheng , Clausen Anders , Lin Yun , Jørgensen Bo Nørregaard 
Published: September 2021

AbstractDigitalization is playing an important role in the emerging practice of Building-to-Grid (B2G). However, the majority of the literature only covers either the grid side, the demand side, or the technical aspect of B2G integration, and an overview of the digitalization in B2G and the involved stakeholders is missing. To fill these gaps, this paper proposes a definition of the B2G ecosystem and provides an overview of the digitalization of the B2G ecosystem with six aspects (B2G goals and themes, B2G technologies, B2G data sources and data management, and B2G related stakeholders). This paper also discusses five emerging technologies (5G, IoT, big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain) and three main challenges of the applications of the emerging technologies in the B2G ecosystem (Security and privacy, interoperability and scalability, coordination, and dysfunctional emerging behaviors of collective intelligent controls). Lastly, this paper recommends future research directions in the Building-to-Grid ecosystem (especially ecosystem modeling and simulation), B2G’s role in smart cities, sustainability, resilience, and harmonization of the B2G ecosystem, and other emerging technologies in B2G.
A generic agent-based framework for modeling business ecosystems: a case study of electric vehicle home charging
Authors: Værbak Magnus , Ma Zheng , Demazeau Yves , Jørgensen Bo N. 
Published: September 2021

AbstractModeling and simulation have been popularly used for system investigation and evaluation. With proper evaluation, distribution system operators can decide on a reasonable course of action for encouraging energy flexibility and make predictions on the recommended timing and magnitude of system updates under different scenarios. However, there is no efficient tool for system operators to quickly set up and perform simulations of alternative scenarios for system updates before planning their course of action, without much experience with programming or system modeling. This paper proposes an agent-based modeling framework for developing agent-based simulation models of business ecosystems that can be applied to multiple evaluation scenarios by simple configuration of agents and roles. There are two steps in this proposed framework: Step 1 – Interface and role interactions design and Step 2 – Agent architecture and connections design. In addition, the framework depends on a pre-step that covers mapping and architecture development of the business ecosystem to be modeled. The framework is demonstrated with a case study of an energy business ecosystem consisting of an electricity distribution grid with 137 connected domestic consumers. The case study shows that the proposed agent-based modeling framework supports the development of agent-based models for simulating energy business ecosystems. To verify the behavior of the developed agent-based simulation models, a verification procedure of the agent models is briefly discussed, which includes unit, integration, and system testing approaches similar to the ones used in software testing.
Lower dementia risk with anticoagulation and ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation
Authors: Kim Daehoon , Yang Pil-Sung , Joung Boyoung 
Published: September 2021

AbstractAtrial fibrillation (AF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia in the elderly population, has been associated with an impairment of cognitive function and an increased risk of dementia. Even though there does not appear to be solid evidence that any specific treatment prevents or delays AF-associated cognitive decline, evidence is accumulating regarding the possible treatment strategies for preventing dementia. Oral anticoagulation, especially non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants rather than warfarin use, has been suggested to be associated with reduced risk of dementia. Successfully maintaining sinus rhythm using catheter ablation might be also helpful in preventing subsequent dementia in patients with AF. In this review, we critically appraise the proposed treatment strategies for preventing AF-associated cognitive decline.
Randomized Prospective Trial Exploring the Impact of Structured Journaling in Patients With Sarcoma on the Management of Treatment-Related Adverse Events
Authors: Speece N.J. , Xu Menglin , Tinoco Gabriel , Liebner David A. , Chen James L. 
Published: September 2021

PURPOSE: Treatment-related adverse events associated with systemic anticancer therapy (SACT) can deter patients with sarcoma from completing treatment. With self-monitoring, patients may be better empowered to self-advocate for improved symptom management. We hypothesized that by incorporating journaling, a structured form of self-monitoring, care team communication, and symptom management would improve. We thus designed a prospective randomized trial exploring journaling as a therapeutic adjuvant for symptom management ( NCT03258892 ). METHODS: Participants with sarcoma initiating SACT were randomly assigned to receive either a symptom management journal at the start of SACT or after completing two cycles of SACT. Symptom journals were designed jointly by a cancer patient focus group and by education experts. Journals were reviewed with clinical staff at each visit. Participant responses were obtained through questionnaires. Patient call volume was obtained through the electronic health record. RESULTS: Of 64 participants consented for the trial, 53 were evaluable for analysis. Fifty-five percent of participants reported that the journal was at least moderately useful. These participants were more likely to report improved communication scores ( P = .027), symptom management ( P = .011), and quality of life (QOL) ( P = .019). Participants who received the journal early were less likely to report a decrease in QOL as compared with the late journal group ( P = .757 v P = .035). CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first prospective randomized trial evaluating the use of structured journaling as a low-cost means to improve treatment-related adverse event management and QOL in patients with sarcoma undergoing SACT. These promising results will need to be confirmed by additional studies.
The Auto-Tuned Self: Modulating Voice and Gender in Digital Media Ecologies
Authors: Åkervall Lisa 
Published: September 2021

Abstract
This essay takes the auto-tuned viral video “Can't Hug Every Cat” as a point of entry for a broader analysis of how modulation decisively shapes politics, aesthetics, and gendering in contemporary digital ecologies. It uncovers how the exaggerated exhibitions of feminine vocal modulation in “Can't Hug Every Cat” entangle with generational feminist anxieties over gendered forms of articulation such as “sexy baby voice” and “upspeak.” It argues that the problematic of the modulated voice is both technologically and thematically central to political, technological, aesthetic, and gendered genealogies of media-technical modulation. The modulated voice given such extraordinary staging in “Can't Hug Every Cat” is therefore restored to the longer history of voice modulation, which is itself closely tied to the rise of control societies and digital media. In this perspective, techniques of voice modulation and social modulation are tandem technologies. The voice modulation that has figured prominently in media cultures in recent decades—from the music of Cher to T-Pain and beyond—is not merely a consequence of digital media and control societies but is also integral to their conditions of possibility. In this light, the rise of technologies for the modulation of the human voice since the nineteenth century is intertwined with the rise of new economic, political, and medical systems of control.
Schneemann Sounding: Embodied Sonic Systems
Authors: Ragona Melissa 
Published: September 2021

Abstract
This essay examines the central position the medium of sound played in the work of the artist Carolee Schneemann (US, 1939–2019). By exploring a few key early works such as Glass Environment for Sound and Motion (1962), Chromelodeon (1963), and Noise Bodies (1965), it traces how her exposure to emergent forms in experimental music informed important translations she made of complex sonic structures into expanded, layered, constantly evolving visual systems. The essay argues that Schneemann transformed the body into a soft recording system that broadcast sonic testimonies of everyday encounters with the excesses of conspicuous consumption, the inequalities of gendered relations, and the disturbing encounters with state-mandated violence against other cultures, in particular the US invasion of Vietnam.
Christ, Santa Claus, Doctor Deliverer: For Carolee Schneemann
Authors: Yoon Soyoung 
Published: September 2021

Abstract
This essay attends to the force of aggression in Carolee Schneemann's work, emphasizing the conflicts in the artist's representation of enjoyment, knowledge, and truth in her own body, with a focus on Up To and Including Her Limits (1973–76) and the underexplored text “Anti-Demeter: The More I Give the More You Steal” (1994). Addressing how the latter presents an origin myth for the artist, the essay underscores Schneemann's struggle over questions of genealogy, alliance, influence, and debt. On the question of debt, particular attention is given to its quality of ambivalence on terms of sexual difference, especially for father figures perceived as models of artistic expressivity, and the mothering body as a body of prohibition, labor, illness, and death. Examining the negation of the body, the role of aggression and violence, and the critique of the bind of “male fantasies” in Schneemann's work, the essay proposes a shift in feminist art historiography and its projections on Schneemann the artist. The essay asserts Schneemann's tale as a cautionary and self-reflexive one for those who come after, the would-be-daughters, who would negate the body, the struggle, the art yet again for the myth, in a time ripe for myth, in the wake of the artist's passing.
House Body House
Authors: White Kenneth 
Published: September 2021

Abstract
The essay describes Carolee Schneemann's residence, a stone house constructed in 1750 by Huguenot settlers on land of the Munsee Lenape people, and its central role in her life and work from the early 1960s until her death in 2019. The essay gives particular attention to Schneemann's text “Parts of a Body House” (1957–67), a series of paragraphs composed over a decade that describe a network of biomorphic structures and multimedia environments. The essay argues that “Parts of a Body House” is a “nerve codex” by which to read the artist's life and work. The essay is derived in part from remarks the author delivered at the memorial service for Schneemann at Judson Memorial Church, New York, on 3 May 2019.
Parables for the Virtual
Authors: Massumi Brian 
Published: September 2021

Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Massumi tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan's acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multifaceted argument.
This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new preface in which Massumi situates the book in relation to developments since its publication and outlines the evolution of its main concepts. It also includes two short texts, “Keywords for Affect” and “Missed Conceptions about Affect,” in which Massumi explicates his approach to affect in ways that emphasize the book's political and philosophical stakes.
Polygenic Score for Physical Activity Is Associated with Multiple Common Diseases
Authors: SILLANPÄÄ ELINA , PALVIAINEN TEEMU , RIPATTI SAMULI , KUJALA URHO M. , KAPRIO JAAKKO 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT

Introduction
Genetic pleiotropy, in which the same genes affect two or more traits, may partially explain the frequently observed associations between high physical activity (PA) and later reduced morbidity or mortality. This study investigated associations between PA polygenic risk scores (PRS) and cardiometabolic diseases among the Finnish population.

Methods
PRS for device-measured overall PA were adapted to a FinnGen study cohort of 218,792 individuals with genomewide genotyping and extensive digital longitudinal health register data. Associations between PA PRS and body mass index, diseases, and mortality were analyzed with linear and logistic regression models.

Results
A high PA PRS predicted a lower body mass index (β = −0.025 kg·m−2 per one SD change in PA PRS, SE = 0.013, P = 1.87 × 10−80). The PA PRS also predicted a lower risk for diseases that typically develop later in life or not at all among highly active individuals. A lower disease risk was systematically observed for cardiovascular diseases (odds ratio [OR] per 1 SD change in PA PRS = 0.95, P = 9.5 × 10−19) and, for example, hypertension [OR = 0.93, P = 2.7 × 10−44), type 2 diabetes (OR = 0.91, P = 4.1 × 10−42), and coronary heart disease (OR = 0.95, P = 1.2 × 10−9). Participants with high PA PRS had also lower mortality risk (OR = 0.97, P = 0.0003).

Conclusions
Genetically less active persons are at a higher risk of developing cardiometabolic diseases, which may partly explain the previously observed associations between low PA and higher disease and mortality risk. The same inherited physical fitness and metabolism-related mechanisms may be associated both with PA levels and with cardiometabolic disease risk.
The Effect of Exercise Training on Lean Body Mass in Breast Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Authors: FRASER STEVE F. , GARDNER JASON R. , DALLA VIA JACK , DALY ROBIN M. 
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT

Purpose
Reduced lean body mass (LBM) is common during and after treatment for breast cancer, and it is associated with increased treatment-induced toxicity, shorter time to tumor progression, and decreased survival. Exercise training is a potential intervention for maintaining or increasing LBM. We conducted a systematic review and a meta-analysis to investigate the effects of exercise training on LBM in breast cancer.

Methods
A comprehensive search was performed to November 2020 for randomized controlled trials reporting the effects of structured exercise training on LBM compared with control in women with breast cancer during or after cancer treatment. A random-effects meta-analysis was completed using the absolute net difference in the change in LBM between intervention and control groups as the outcome measure. Sensitivity and subgroup analyses were also performed.

Results
Data from 17 studies involving 1743 breast cancer survivors were included in the meta-analysis. Overall, there was a significant benefit of exercise training compared with control on LBM (0.58 kg, 95% confidence interval = 0.27 to 0.88, P < 0.001). Subgroup analysis showed positive effects for resistance training (0.59 kg) and aerobic training (0.29 kg), and for exercise training conducted during (0.47 kg) or after (0.66 kg) cancer treatment. Exercise training was beneficial in studies enrolling postmenopausal women (0.58 kg) as well as in those with participants of mixed menopausal status (1.46 kg).

Conclusions
Compared with usual care, exercise training has a beneficial effect on LBM in women with breast cancer, both during and after cancer treatment. Given the physiological and functional importance of LBM in women with breast cancer, oncologists should encourage their patients to engage in regular exercise training, with particular emphasis on resistance training.
Role of diffusion tensor imaging in the evaluation of ulnar nerve involvement in leprosy
Authors: Aggarwal Ankita , Das Chandan Jyoti , Khanna Neena , Sharma Raju , Srivastava Deep Narayan , Goyal Vinay , Netaji Arjunlokesh 
Published: September 2021

Objective:
Early detection of peripheral neuropathy is extremely important as leprosy is one of the treatable causes of peripheral neuropathy. The study was undertaken to assess the role of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in ulnar neuropathy in leprosy patients.

Methods:
This was a case–control study including 38 patients (72 nerves) and 5 controls (10 nerves) done between January 2017 and June 2019. Skin biopsy proven cases of leprosy, having symptoms of ulnar neuropathy (proven on nerve conduction study) were included. MRI was performed on a 3 T MR system. Mean cross-sectional area, fractional anisotropy (FA) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values of ulnar nerve at cubital tunnel were calculated. Additional ancillary findings and appearance of base sequences were evaluated.

Results:
Ulnar nerve showed thickening with altered T 2W signal in all the affected nerves, having an average cross-sectional area of 0.26 cm2. Low FA with mean of 0.397 ± 0.19 and high ADC with mean of 1.28 ± 0.427 x 10 −3 mm2/s of ulnar nerve in retrocondylar groove was obtained. In the control group, mean cross-sectional area was 0.71cm2 with mean FA and ADC of 0.53 ± 0.088 and 1.03 ± 0.24 x 10 −3 mm2/s respectively. Statistically no significant difference was seen in diseased and control group. Cut-off to detect neuropathy for FA and ADC is 0.4835 and 1.1020 × 10 −3 mm2/s respectively.

Conclusion:
DTI though is challenging in peripheral nerves, however, is proving to be a powerful complementary tool for assessment of peripheral neuropathy. Our study validates its utility in infective neuropathies.

Advances in knowledge:
1. DTI is a potential complementary tool for detection of peripheral neuropathies and can be incorporated in standard MR neurography protocol.
2. In leprosy-related ulnar neuropathy, altered signal intensity with thickening or abscess of the nerve is appreciated along with locoregional nodes and secondary denervation changes along with reduction of FA and rise in ADC value.
3. Best cut-offs obtained in our study for FA and ADC are 0.4835 and 1.1020 × 10 −3 mm2/s respectively.
CT texture analysis in evaluation of thymic tumors and thymic hyperplasia: correlation with the international thymic malignancy interest group (ITMIG) stage and WHO grade
Authors: Rajamohan Naveen , Goyal Ankur , Kandasamy Devasenathipathy , Bhalla Ashu Seith , Parshad Rajinder , Jain Deepali , Sharma Raju 
Published: September 2021

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of CT texture analysis (CTTA) in (1) differentiating Thymoma (THY) from thymic hyperplasia (TH) (2) low from high WHO grade, and (3) low from high Masaoka Koga (MK)/International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG) stages. Methods: After institute ethical clearance, this cross-sectional study analyzed 26 patients (THY-18, TH-8) who underwent dual energy CT (DECT) and surgery between January 2016 and December 2018. CTTA was performed using TexRad (Feedback Medical Ltd., Cambridge, UK- www.fbkmed.com ) by a single observer. Free hand regions of interest (ROIs) were placed over axial sections where there was maximum enhancement and homogeneity. Filtration histogram was used to generate six first-order texture parameters [mean, standard deviation (SD), mean of positive pixels (MPP), entropy, skewness, and kurtosis] at six spatial scaling factors “SSF 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6”. Mann–Whitney test was applied among various categories and p value < 0.05 was considered significant. Three-step feature selection was performed to determine the best parameters among each category. Results: The best performing parameters were (1) THY vs TH- Mean at “SSF 0” (AUC: 0.8889) and MPP at “SSF 0” (AUC: 0.8889), (2) Low vs high WHO grade - no parameter showed statistical significance with good AUC, and (3) Low vs high MK/ITMIG stage- SD at “SSF 6” (AUC: 0.8052 and 0.8333 respectively]). Conclusion: CTTA revealed several parameters with excellent diagnostic performance in differentiating thymoma from thymic hyperplasia and MK/ITMIG high vs low stages. CTTA could potentially serve as a non-invasive tool for this stratification. Advances in knowledge: This study has employed texture analysis, a novel radiomics method on DECT scans to determine the best performing parameter and their corresponding cut-off values to differentiate among the above-mentioned categories. These new parameters may help add another layer of confidence to non-invasively stratify and prognosticate patients accurately which was only previously possible with a biopsy.
Magnetic resonance imaging texture analysis in the quantitative evaluation of acute osteomyelitis of the mandibular bone
Authors: Muraoka Hirotaka , Ito Kotaro , Hirahara Naohisa , Ichiki Shungo , Kondo Takumi , Kaneda Takashi 
Published: September 2021

Objectives: Accurate assessment of radiological images can help in early diagnosis and therapy of suppurative osteomyelitis (OM). The purpose of this study was to apply texture analysis to MRI as a means of quantitatively evaluating acute OM of the mandible. Methods: We analyzed the data from 38 patients who complained of pain and underwent MRI between April 2017 and March 2019. From the MRIs of these patients, with (n = 19) and without OM (n = 19), 279 radiomics features were extracted using short tau inversion recovery, data of the regions of interest and analyzed with MaZda v. 3.3. 10 features, including one histogram feature (90th percentile), eight gray-level co-occurrence matrix features (Sum Averg), and one gray-level run-length matrix feature (Horzl_RLNonUni), were selected using Fisher coefficient and compared between the acute OM and non-OM groups. The two groups were compared using Mann–Whitney U test with p value set at 0.05. Results: All 10 radiomics features showed significant differences between the acute OM and non-OM groups (p < 0.05). Conclusions: MRI texture analysis has potential application in radiomics diagnosis of acute OM of the mandible.