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Housing for a Sustainable Future
Authors: Moore Trivess , Doyon Andréanne 
Published: June 2023

AbstractWe find ourselves at a critical juncture: after decades of fragmented and limited action, we are experiencing a climate emergency. The built environment, which includes the housing sector, is a significant contributor of greenhouse gas emissions and wider environmental impact. Any transition to a low carbon future must include the housing sector and prioritize delivery of sustainable housing. This book explores the role that sustainable housing must play in the transition to a low carbon future and how we can provide that type of housing. This chapter explores the changing world we face, largely from a changing climate, and what this means for the built environment. We then discuss why housing is important and what benefits and opportunities sustainable housing can provide. Following this, we reflect on why, given the benefits of sustainable housing, we find ourselves facing ongoing challenges with changing the housing sector around the world. We conclude the chapter with an overview of each chapter in the book.
A Critical Juncture
Authors: Moore Trivess , Doyon Andréanne 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThis chapter explores the critical juncture that we find ourselves at in relation to sustainable housing, but also wider sustainability considerations. We know that in order to meet decarbonisation goals by the middle of the century (if not sooner) the time before 2030 is going to be critical and have a large baring on if those longer term objectives will be achieved. We discuss the future we are likely creating if we continue on a business-as-usual approach and cover core arguments around the urgency of change required. If done right, a sustainable housing transition will not just be about improving design, materials, technologies, and construction methods, but will also be a way to help address a range of other social justice and equity issues that have been exacerbated by rapidly worsening housing unaffordability issues around the world. We draw on this framing to start to present innovations in sustainable housing which will be important for guiding the wider sustainable housing transition.
Providing Sustainable Housing through Sustainability Transitions
Authors: Moore Trivess , Doyon Andréanne 
Published: June 2023

AbstractIn this chapter, we explore the concept of sustainability transitions and how it offers a framework to change some of the deep structural elements and embeddedness within the current housing regime. Much of the focus in improving the design, quality, and performance of housing has resulted in minor tweaks rather than the more significant changes required to provide sustainable housing at the scale and rate required for a low carbon future. We begin this chapter with an overview of sustainability transitions theory and research, including exploring where sustainability transitions occur. Following this, we note emerging sustainable housing and transitions research and identify several important socio-technical dimensions for change which will be discussed in more detail in Chaps. 6 and 7.
Sustainable Housing in Practice
Authors: Moore Trivess , Doyon Andréanne 
Published: June 2023

AbstractIn this chapter, we explore the socio-technical dimensions presented in Chap. 6 in more detail through key themes we have introduced throughout this book: high performing housing, small housing, shared housing, neighbourhood-scale housing, circular housing, and innovative financing for housing. Through these themes, we discuss sustainable housing at different scales: the dwelling scale, neighbourhood and city scale, and the state, national and international scale. We demonstrate different elements and approaches to providing sustainable housing and sustainable communities more broadly. For each theme, we present an overview and some examples of how the theme addresses the different socio-technical dimensions. We then present real-life case studies of where the theme is being demonstrated in practice, again referring to the socio-technical dimensions. Our intent is to show how key ideas from the book are translating into the current provision of sustainable housing and demonstrating elements already being provided for what could be the basis of a sustainable housing transition.
Self-similar gravitational dynamics, singularities and criticality in 2D
Authors: Moitra Upamanyu 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
We initiate a systematic study of continuously self-similar (CSS) gravitational dynamics in two dimensions, motivated by critical phenomena observed in higher dimensional gravitational theories. We consider CSS spacetimes admitting a homothetic Killing vector (HKV) field. For a general two-dimensional gravitational theory coupled to a dilaton field and Maxwell field, we find that the assumption of continuous self-similarity determines the form of the dilaton coupling to the curvature. Certain limits produce two important classes of models, one of which is closely related to two-dimensional target space string theory and the other being Liouville gravity. The gauge field is shown to produce a shift in the dilaton potential strength. We consider static black hole solutions and find spacetimes with uncommon asymptotic behaviour. We show the vacuum self-similar spacetimes to be special limits of the static solutions. We add matter fields consistent with self-similarity (including a certain model of semi-classical gravity) and write down the autonomous ordinary differential equations governing the gravitational dynamics. Based on the phenomenon of finite-time blow-up in ODEs, we argue that spacetime singularities are generic in our models. We present qualitatively diverse results from analytical and numerical investigations regarding matter field collapse and singularities. We find interesting hints of a Choptuik-like scaling law.
Differential intracellular trafficking of extracellular vesicles in microglia and astrocytes
Authors: Pantazopoulou Marina , Lamprokostopoulou Agaristi , Karampela Dimitra Sotiria , Alexaki Anastasia , Delis Anastasios , Coens Audrey , Samiotaki Martina , Kriebardis Anastasios G. , Melki Ronald , Pagakis Stamatis N. , Stefanis Leonidas , Vekrellis Kostas 
Published: June 2023

AbstractExtracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as key players in cell-to-cell communication in both physiological and pathological processes in the Central Nervous System. Thus far, the intracellular pathways involved in uptake and trafficking of EVs within different cell types of the brain are poorly understood. In our study, the endocytic processes and subcellular sorting of EVs were investigated in primary glial cells, particularly linked with the EV-associated α-synuclein (α-syn) transmission. Mouse microglia and astrocytic primary cultures were incubated with DiI-stained mouse brain-derived EVs. The internalization and trafficking pathways were analyzed in cells treated with pharmacological reagents that block the major endocytic pathways. Brain-derived EVs were internalized by both glial cell types; however, uptake was more efficient in microglia than in astrocytes. Colocalization of EVs with early and late endocytic markers (Rab5, Lamp1) indicated that EVs are sorted to endo-lysosomes for subsequent processing. Blocking actin-dependent phagocytosis and/or macropinocytosis with Cytochalasin D or EIPA inhibited EV entry into glial cells, whereas treatment with inhibitors that strip cholesterol off the plasma membrane, induced uptake, however differentially altered endosomal sorting. EV-associated fibrillar α-Syn was efficiently internalized and detected in Rab5- and Lamp1-positive compartments within microglia. Our study strongly suggests that EVs enter glial cells through phagocytosis and/or macropinocytosis and are sorted to endo-lysosomes for subsequent processing. Further, brain-derived EVs serve as scavengers and mediate cell-to-glia transfer of pathological α-Syn which is also targeted to the endolysosomal pathway, suggesting a beneficial role in microglia-mediated clearance of toxic protein aggregates, present in numerous neurodegenerative diseases.
Reprocessed precise science orbits and gravity field recovery for the entire GOCE mission
Authors: Arnold Daniel , Grombein Thomas , Schreiter Lucas , Sterken Veerle , Jäggi Adrian 
Published: June 2023

AbstractESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) orbited the Earth between 2009 and 2013 for the determination of the static part of Earth’s gravity field. The GPS-derived precise science orbits (PSOs) were operationally generated by the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern (AIUB). Due to a significantly improved understanding of remaining artifacts after the end of the GOCE mission (especially in the GOCE gradiometry data), ESA initiated a reprocessing of the entire GOCE Level 1b data in 2018. In this framework, AIUB was commissioned to recompute the GOCE reduced-dynamic and kinematic PSOs. In this paper, we report on the employed precise orbit determination methods, with a focus on measures undertaken to mitigate ionosphere-induced artifacts in the kinematic orbits and thereof derived gravity field models. With respect to the PSOs computed during the operational phase of GOCE, the reprocessed PSOs show in average a 8–9% better consistency with GPS data, 31% smaller 3-dimensional reduced-dynamic orbit overlaps, an 8% better 3-dimensional consistency between reduced-dynamic and kinematic orbits, and a 3–7% reduction of satellite laser ranging residuals. In the second part of the paper, we present results from GPS-based gravity field determinations that highlight the strong benefit of the GOCE reprocessed kinematic PSOs. Due to the applied data weighting strategy, a substantially improved quality of gravity field coefficients between degree 10 and 40 is achieved, corresponding to a remarkable reduction of ionosphere-induced artifacts along the geomagnetic equator. For a static gravity field solution covering the entire mission period, geoid height differences with respect to a superior inter-satellite ranging solution are markedly reduced (43% in terms of global RMS, compared to previous GOCE GPS-based gravity fields). Furthermore, we demonstrate that the reprocessed GOCE PSOs allow to recover long-wavelength time-variable gravity field signals (up to degree 10), comparable to information derived from GPS data of dedicated satellite missions. To this end, it is essential to take into account the GOCE common-mode accelerometer data in the gravity field recovery.
Verletzungsdokumentation und Strafverfolgung bei häuslicher Gewalt: Hellfeldstudie an allen Ermittlungsverfahren eines Jahres in Thüringen
Authors: Hunold T. , Muggenthaler H. , Sauer S. , Hubig M. , Niederegger S. , Mall G. 
Published: June 2023

ZusammenfassungHäusliche Gewalt ist ein Problemfeld, mit dem Ärzte diverser Fachrichtungen konfrontiert sind. Den Medizinern kommt dabei neben der Erstversorgung die forensisch relevante Aufgabe zu, eine Fremdeinwirkung zu erkennen und eine Verletzungsdokumentation durchzuführen.In der vorliegenden Studie wurden erstmals alle 1403 unter der Rubrik „häusliche Gewalt“ archivierten staatsanwaltschaftlichen Ermittlungsakten Thüringens aus dem Jahr 2009 umfassend ausgewertet. Fokus der vorliegenden Auswertung war die Bedeutung der Verletzungsdokumentation für das staatsanwaltschaftliche Ermittlungsverfahren.Bei rund einem Drittel der 987 Geschädigten mit Verletzungen von insgesamt 1472 Geschädigten erfolgte eine schriftliche und/oder fotografische Verletzungsdokumentation. Die Verletzungsdokumentation erhöhte die Chance auf eine strafrechtliche Ahndung (Anklageerhebung oder Strafbefehlsantrag) um das 3,75fache, bei schweren Verletzungen um das 3,96fache, bei leichten Verletzungen um das 3,41fache. Nichtsdestotrotz wurden 87,3 % der Ermittlungsverfahren nach dem Vorverfahren eingestellt. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf einer insgesamt forensisch unzureichenden ärztlichen Befunddokumentation.Eine Verbesserung der ärztlichen Befunddokumentation dürfte zu einer noch höheren Ahndungsquote führen. Zudem legt die vorliegende Studie quantitative Daten vor, wie sehr der „Erfolg“ eines Ermittlungsverfahrens mit dem Vorhandensein einer Verletzungsdokumentation korreliert.
Interspecific avoidance of song overlap in tropical songbirds: species-specific responses to acoustically similar and different intruders
Authors: Budka Michał , Staniewicz Agata , Sokołowska Emilia 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
To ensure effective acoustic communication, signals should reach receivers in the least distorted form possible. Animals use various short- and long-term strategies to avoid signal degradation and masking. However, we still have an insufficient understanding of how animals’ vocal behaviour is impacted by the vocalisations of other animals in their acoustic communities. We experimentally examined how two tropical, sedentary, territorial songbirds in Western Uganda—the scaly-breasted illadopsis (Illadopsis albipectus) and the green-backed camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura)—modify their singing behaviour after the simulated appearance of new, unfamiliar acoustic competitors, whose songs vary in similarity to those of the species studied. We found that scaly-breasted illadopsis sang significantly less during the playback of songs of acoustically similar species than of acoustically different species or silence and avoided song overlapping with acoustically similar species but not with acoustically different species. Green-backed camaroptera sang significantly more during the playback of both acoustically similar and different simulated intruders than during the control containing silence, and patterns of overlap with the songs of both the acoustically similar and different species were random. Our results show that even a single-point noise source present within a territory can modify a bird’s singing behaviour. The new sound may affect species differently, depending in part on the level of acoustic similarity with the species’ song. To mitigate the effect of song masking, different species may use different strategies, such as temporal avoidance or signal redundancy. Studies examining the adaptive abilities of species in natural and modified habitats are needed to predict the consequences of changes in acoustic community structure.

Significance statement
To ensure effective communication, birds may use different strategies to avoid signal masking in common acoustic space, particularly in the complex acoustic environment of a tropical forest. While multiple studies have focused on responses to interference caused by anthropogenic noise, the effect of new individual species on the acoustic community structure has received little attention. We simulated intrusions by unfamiliar species with different levels of song similarity into the territories of two tropical songbird species. The appearance of new simulated acoustic intruders modified the birds’ singing behaviour, but the two study species responded differently. These results suggest that the level of acoustic similarity, as well as the species ecology, may affect the species response, which may be particularly important when predicting the effects of new species appearance as a result of changes in habitat and climate.
Acquisition and usage of robotic surgical data for machine learning analysis
Authors: Hashemi Nasseh , Svendsen Morten Bo Søndergaard , Bjerrum Flemming , Rasmussen Sten , Tolsgaard Martin G. , Friis Mikkel Lønborg 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Background
The increasing use of robot-assisted surgery (RAS) has led to the need for new methods of assessing whether new surgeons are qualified to perform RAS, without the resource-demanding process of having expert surgeons do the assessment.
Computer-based automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are seen as promising alternatives to expert-based surgical assessment. However, no standard protocols or methods for preparing data and implementing AI are available for clinicians. This may be among the reasons for the impediment to the use of AI in the clinical setting.

Method
We tested our method on porcine models with both the da Vinci Si and the da Vinci Xi. We sought to capture raw video data from the surgical robots and 3D movement data from the surgeons and prepared the data for the use in AI by a structured guide to acquire and prepare video data using the following steps: ‘Capturing image data from the surgical robot’, ‘Extracting event data’, ‘Capturing movement data of the surgeon’, ‘Annotation of image data’.

Results
15 participant (11 novices and 4 experienced) performed 10 different intraabdominal RAS procedures. Using this method we captured 188 videos (94 from the surgical robot, and 94 corresponding movement videos of the surgeons’ arms and hands). Event data, movement data, and labels were extracted from the raw material and prepared for use in AI.

Conclusion
With our described methods, we could collect, prepare, and annotate images, events, and motion data from surgical robotic systems in preparation for its use in AI.
Exploring the experiences and priorities of women with a diagnosis of ovarian cancer
Authors: Pasvanis Maree , Hegarty Sue , Russell Hayley , Peate Michelle , Marino Jennifer L. 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Purpose
Ovarian cancer is the third most common gynaecological cancer among women, yet remains under-researched. Past studies suggest that women who present with ovarian cancer have more supportive care needs compared to women experiencing other gynaecological cancers. This study explores the experiences and priorities of women with a diagnosis of ovarian cancer and whether age may influence these needs and experiences.

Methods
Participants were recruited by a community organization, Ovarian Cancer Australia (OCA), via a social media campaign promoted on Facebook. Participants were asked to rank priorities around living with ovarian cancer, and to endorse which supports and resources they had used to address those priorities. Distributions of priority rankings and resource use were compared by age (19-49 vs. 50+ years).

Results
Two hundred and eighty-eight people completed the consumer survey and most respondents were 60-69 years (33.7%). Priorities did not vary by age. Fear of cancer recurrence was identified by 51% respondents as the most challenging aspect of having ovarian cancer. Compared with older respondents, a higher proportion of young participants were more inclined to use a mobile app version of the OCA resilience kit (25.8% vs 45.1%, p=0.002) and expressed interest in using a fertility preservation decision aid (2.4% vs 25%, p<0.001).

Conclusion
Fear of recurrence was participants’ primary concern, presenting an opportunity to develop interventions. Information delivery needs to consider age-specific preferences to better reach the target audience. Fertility is more important to younger women and a fertility preservation decision aid may address this need.
Plaque removal efficacy of a new toothbrush with a double-sided head and rotating handle—a pilot randomized control trial in acquired brain injury patients
Authors: Mato Eliane García , López Lucía Sande , Freitas Marcio Diniz , Pazos María Teresa Abeleira , Posse Jacobo Limeres , Dios Pedro Diz , Mundiña Berta Rivas 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Objectives
To assess the efficacy of a new toothbrush (Balene) for the mechanical removal of dental plaque in patients with acquired brain injury.

Material and methods
The study group consisted of 25 adults with acquired brain injury. The participants underwent 2 sessions of toothbrushing lasting 1 min, one with a conventional toothbrush and the other with the Balene toothbrush. This new double-headed toothbrush has 6 active sides, which allows for the simultaneous toothbrushing of both alveolar arches, with elastomer bristles angled at 45°, as well a handle that rotates up to 180°. Therefore, the user does not need to remove the toothbrush from the oral cavity during the toothbrushing process. Dental plaque accumulation was assessed using the simplified oral hygiene index of Greene and Vermillion.

Results
The plaque index was significantly reduced both with the Balene toothbrush (p < 0.001) and with the conventional toothbrush (p < 0.001). The dental plaque removal efficacy was similar with the two toothbrushes. There were also no statistically significant differences in the removal of plaque with the Balene toothbrush between the autonomous and assisted toothbrushing modalities (p = 0.345).

Conclusions
For patients with acquired brain injury, the Balene toothbrush was as effective as a conventional toothbrush, regardless of whether the toothbrushing modality was autonomous or assisted.

Clinical relevance
The Balene® toothbrush’s efficacy in removing dental plaque is similar to that of conventional toothbrushes, both with the autonomous and assisted toothbrushing modality. Given its particular ergonomics, this toothbrush could be indicated for certain select patients with acquired brain injury (i.e., those whose degree of cooperation allows for toothbrushing, with a sufficient mouth opening, with no substantial abnormalities in the intermaxillary relationship, and with no significant edentulous sections).
Into the unknown: active monitoring of neural networks (extended version)
Authors: Kueffner Konstantin , Lukina Anna , Schilling Christian , Henzinger Thomas A. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractNeural-network classifiers achieve high accuracy when predicting the class of an input that they were trained to identify. Maintaining this accuracy in dynamic environments, where inputs frequently fall outside the fixed set of initially known classes, remains a challenge. We consider the problem of monitoring the classification decisions of neural networks in the presence of novel classes. For this purpose, we generalize our recently proposed abstraction-based monitor from binary output to real-valued quantitative output. This quantitative output enables new applications, two of which we investigate in the paper. As our first application, we introduce an algorithmic framework for active monitoring of a neural network, which allows us to learn new classes dynamically and yet maintain high monitoring performance. As our second application, we present an offline procedure to retrain the neural network to improve the monitor’s detection performance without deteriorating the network’s classification accuracy. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates both the benefits of our active monitoring framework in dynamic scenarios and the effectiveness of the retraining procedure.
Novel Environmentally Superior Tribomaterial with Superlow Friction: 100% Cellulose Nanofiber Molding
Authors: Okubo Hikaru , Hashiba Hiromi , Inamochi Toru , Sato Kaisei , Sasaki Shinya , Yamada Kazushi , Nakano Ken 
Published: June 2023

AbstractIn this paper, we report on a novel, environmentally superior tribomaterial with superlow friction of 100% cellulose nanofiber (CNF) molding. Based on our experimental results, the CNF molding exhibited a superlow friction coefficient of approximately 0.01 under lubrication with a fatty acid: glycerin monooleate (GMO) diluted with poly-alfa-olefine. Attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and high-resolution frequency-modulation atomic force microscopy analyses demonstrated that superlow friction of the CNF molding was realized by GMO-assisted functionalization of the CNF surface, which effectively promoted the formation of a soft absorption film or soft swollen CNF layer. Our findings indicate that the in-situ functionalization of OH-terminated CNF surfaces during the friction process plays a crucial role in achieving superlow friction.
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