A reconfigurable sound wave decomposition filterbank for hearing aids based on nonlinear transformation

Hearing impaired people have their own hearing loss characteristics and listening preferences. Therefore hearing aid system should become more natural, humanized and personalized, which requires the filterbank in hearing aids provides flexible sound wave decomposition schemes, so that patients are likely to use the most suitable scheme for their own hearing compensation strategy. In this paper, a reconfigurable sound wave decomposition filterbank is proposed. The prototype filter is first cosine modulated to generate uniform subbands. Then by non-linear transformation the uniform subbands are mapped to nonuniform subbands. By changing the control parameters, the nonlinear transformation changes which leads to different subbands allocations. It provides four different sound wave decomposition schemes without changing the structure of the filterbank. The performance of the proposed reconfigurable filterbank was compared with that of fixed filerbanks, fully customizable filterbanks and other existing reconfigurable filterbanks. It is shown that the proposed filterbank provides satisfactory matching performance as well as low complexity and delay, which make it suitable for real hearing aid applications

catena-Poly[copper(II)-bis(μ-2,4-dichloro-6-formyl­phenolato)-κ3 O,O′:Cl 4;κ3 Cl 4:O,O′]

In the title compound, [Cu(C7H3Cl2O2)2]n, the CuII atom lies on a centre of inversion and adopts a [4+2] coordination mode, with two long axial Cu—Cl coordinative bonds complementing four Cu—O bonds from two 2,4-dichloro-6-formyl­phenolate ligands in a distorted square plane. π–π stacking inter­actions are also formed between neighbouring aromatic rings, with a centroid–centroid separation of 3.624 (2) Å

3,5-Dibromo-2-hydroxy­benzaldehyde

The title compound, C7H4Br2O2, exhibits a layer packing structure via weak π–π stacking inter­actions [centroid–centroid distances between adjacent aromatic rings are 4.040 (8) and 3.776 (7) Å]. Mol­ecules in each layer are linked by inter­molecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bonding and Br⋯Br inter­actions [3.772 (4) Å]. There are two mol­ecules in the asymmetric unit

Fractional Denoising for 3D Molecular Pre-training

Coordinate denoising is a promising 3D molecular pre-training method, which has achieved remarkable performance in various downstream drug discovery tasks. Theoretically, the objective is equivalent to learning the force field, which is revealed helpful for downstream tasks. Nevertheless, there are two challenges for coordinate denoising to learn an effective force field, i.e. low coverage samples and isotropic force field. The underlying reason is that molecular distributions assumed by existing denoising methods fail to capture the anisotropic characteristic of molecules. To tackle these challenges, we propose a novel hybrid noise strategy, including noises on both dihedral angel and coordinate. However, denoising such hybrid noise in a traditional way is no more equivalent to learning the force field. Through theoretical deductions, we find that the problem is caused by the dependency of the input conformation for covariance. To this end, we propose to decouple the two types of noise and design a novel fractional denoising method (Frad), which only denoises the latter coordinate part. In this way, Frad enjoys both the merits of sampling more low-energy structures and the force field equivalence. Extensive experiments show the effectiveness of Frad in molecular representation, with a new state-of-the-art on 9 out of 12 tasks of QM9 and on 7 out of 8 targets of MD17

2-Methyl-4-trifluoro­meth­yl-1,3-thia­zole-5-carboxylic acid

In crystal of the title compound, C6H4F3NO2S, mol­ecules are linked by O—H⋯N and C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming chains

3,5-Dichloro-2-hydroxy­benzaldehyde

The title compound, C7H4Cl2O2, exhibits a layer crystal structure; mol­ecules within each layer are linked by weak C—H⋯O inter­molecular hydrogen bonds. There is also an intramolecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bond

Timeframe for return to driving for patients with minimally invasive knee arthroplasty is associated with knee performance on functional tests

BACKGROUND: This study hopes to establish the timeframe for a safe return to driving under different speed conditions for patients after minimally invasive total knee arthroplasty and further explores how well various kinds of functional tests on knee performance can predict the patients’ braking ability. METHODS: 14 patients with right knee osteoarthritis were included in the present study and instructed to perform three simulated driving tasks at preoperative, 2 weeks postoperative and 4 weeks postoperative. RESULTS: The results showed that the total braking time at 4 week postoperative has attained the preoperative level at the driving speed 50 and 70 km/hr but not at the driving speed 90 km/hr. It had significantly improving in knee reaction time and maximum isometric force at 4 weeks postoperative. Besides, there was a moderate to high correlation between the scores of the step counts and the total braking time. CONCLUSIONS: Summary, it is recommended that driving may be resumed 4 weeks after a right knee replacement but had to drive at low or moderate speed and the best predictor of safety driving is step counts