Obesity poses several challenges to healthcare and the well-being of individuals.It can be linked to several life-threatening diseases.Surgery is a viable option in some instances to reduce obesity-related risks and e...Obesity poses several challenges to healthcare and the well-being of individuals.It can be linked to several life-threatening diseases.Surgery is a viable option in some instances to reduce obesity-related risks and enable weight loss.State-of-the-art technologies have the potential for long-term benefits in post-surgery living.In this work,an Internet of Things(IoT)framework is proposed to effectively communicate the daily living data and exercise routine of surgery patients and patients with excessive weight.The proposed IoT framework aims to enable seamless communications from wearable sensors and body networks to the cloud to create an accurate profile of the patients.It also attempts to automate the data analysis and represent the facts about a patient.The IoT framework proposes a co-channel interference avoidance mechanism and the ability to communicate higher activity data with minimal impact on the bandwidth requirements of the system.The proposed IoT framework also benefits from machine learning based activity classification systems,with relatively high accuracy,which allow the communicated data to be translated into meaningful information.展开更多
Despite significant improvements in photo-electricity conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells(PSCs)over the past several years,this emerging photovoltaic technology is still years away from large-scale commerc...Despite significant improvements in photo-electricity conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells(PSCs)over the past several years,this emerging photovoltaic technology is still years away from large-scale commercial application.In this review,important research progresses on PSCs’‘golden triangle’parameters of efficiency,stability,and cost in literatures were objectively analyzed.We focused on their key bottlenecks and distinct contradictions hindering their fast commercialization.We also proposed the most urgent directions requiring intensive research and development input in the coming years to speed up the commercialization process of PSCs.展开更多
基金The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Deputy for Research and Innovation-Ministry of Education,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,for this research through a grant(NU/IFC/ENT/01/020)under the institutional Funding Committee at Najran University,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia。
文摘Obesity poses several challenges to healthcare and the well-being of individuals.It can be linked to several life-threatening diseases.Surgery is a viable option in some instances to reduce obesity-related risks and enable weight loss.State-of-the-art technologies have the potential for long-term benefits in post-surgery living.In this work,an Internet of Things(IoT)framework is proposed to effectively communicate the daily living data and exercise routine of surgery patients and patients with excessive weight.The proposed IoT framework aims to enable seamless communications from wearable sensors and body networks to the cloud to create an accurate profile of the patients.It also attempts to automate the data analysis and represent the facts about a patient.The IoT framework proposes a co-channel interference avoidance mechanism and the ability to communicate higher activity data with minimal impact on the bandwidth requirements of the system.The proposed IoT framework also benefits from machine learning based activity classification systems,with relatively high accuracy,which allow the communicated data to be translated into meaningful information.
基金the financial support from the National Key Research and Development Project funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2021YFB3800104)the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST,the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(ZRMS2020001132)+3 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51822203,51861145404,52002140,U20A20252,62105293)the Self-determined and Innovative Research Funds of HUST(2020kfyXJJS008)the Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Committee(JCYJ20180507182257563)the Innovation Project of Optics Valley Laboratory(OVL2021BG008).
文摘Despite significant improvements in photo-electricity conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells(PSCs)over the past several years,this emerging photovoltaic technology is still years away from large-scale commercial application.In this review,important research progresses on PSCs’‘golden triangle’parameters of efficiency,stability,and cost in literatures were objectively analyzed.We focused on their key bottlenecks and distinct contradictions hindering their fast commercialization.We also proposed the most urgent directions requiring intensive research and development input in the coming years to speed up the commercialization process of PSCs.
