Mitigating Measurement Inaccuracies in Digital Twins of Construction Machinery through Multi-Objective Optimization.

The advent of digital twins facilitates the generation of high-fidelity replicas of actual systems or assets, thereby enhancing the design's performance and feasibility. When developing digital twins, precise measurement data is essential to ensure alignment between the actual and digital models. However, inherent uncertainties in sensors and models lead to disparities between observed and predicted (simulated) behaviors.

Conserving the lymphatics from the arm using fluorescence imaging in patients with breast cancer at high risk of postoperative lymphedema: a pilot study.

Background: Postoperative lymphedema in breast cancer survivors is a serious complication that develops from axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Axillary reverse mapping (ARM) was recently introduced to reduce lymphedema. This pilot study aimed to investigate the feasibility of preserving the ARM node using fluorescence imaging for patients at high risk of lymphedema.

Directional bending sensor based on triangular shaped fiber Bragg gratings.

We propose a directional bending sensor by mechanically bonded FBGs in a radially placed triangular shape to measure the bending moment and its applied direction. Bending measurement and the determination of its direction is essential to get the maximum bending stress and to figure out the deflection shape by the curvature information in a wide range of engineering applications. The proposed sensor configuration is original in terms of a pointwise sensing scheme based on the mechanically bonded scheme of three optical fibers and its simple fabrication process only using optical fibers.

Optimal treatment of pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia of the breast.

Background: Pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia (PASH) is a benign mesenchymal proliferative lesion of the breast. Owing to the rarity of PASH, the pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, and optimal treatment of this condition remain unclear. We aimed to clarify the appropriate management of PASH.

Optimal design of lattice structures for controllable extremal band gaps.

This paper presents very large complete band gaps at low audible frequency ranges tailored by gradient-based design optimizations of periodic two- and three-dimensional lattices. From the given various lattice topologies, we proceed to create and enlarge band gap properties through controlling neutral axis configuration and cross-section thickness of beam structures, while retaining the periodicity and size of the unit cell. Beam neutral axis configuration and cross-section thickness are parameterized by higher order B-spline basis functions within the isogeometric analysis framework, and controlled by an optimization algorithm using adjoint sensitivity.