The use of the eddy current technique (ECT) for the non-destructive testing of conducting materials has become increasingly important in the past few years. The use of the non-destructive ECT plays a key role in the ensuring the safety and integrity of the large industrial structures such as oil and gas pipelines. This paper introduce a novel ECT probe design integrated with the distributed ECT...

This paper proposes a joint optimization mechanism for packet length and power in the scenario of covert short D2D communication, so as to effectively improve communication performance between pairs subject constraint. Specifically, we construct short-packet model assisted by further propose notion effective throughput (ECT) quantitatively characterize trade-off covertness reliability IoT state...

SUMMARY Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for depression is a controversial treatment with highly polarised views about the balance between therapeutic benefits and adverse effects. Studies investigating whether ECT more effective than placebo started in 1950s, most important randomised controlled trials carried out four decades ago which was compared sham (SECT) involving anaesthesia but no elec...

Abstract Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been used successfully for over 80 years and is the most effective treatment patients suffering from major depressive disorder (MDD). Despite different hypotheses have proposed, exact working mechanisms of ECT are still unknown. To improve response rates, it necessary to enhance our understanding biological that may affect MDD how treat t...