Publications by authors named "Ethan Gardner"

In recent years, there has been a growing desire to monitor and control harmful substances arising from industrial processes that impact upon our health and quality of life. This has led to a large market demand for gas sensors, which are commonly based on sensors that rely upon a chemical reaction with the target analyte. In contrast, thermal conductivity detectors are physical sensors that detect gases through a change in their thermal conductivity.

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Objective: GAANTRY (Gene Assembly in Agrobacterium by Nucleic acid Transfer using Recombinase technologY) is a flexible and effective system for stably stacking multiple genes within an Agrobacterium virulence plasmid Transfer-DNA (T-DNA). We examined the ability of the GAANTRY Agrobacterium rhizogenes ArPORT1 '10-stack' strain to generate transgenic potato plants.

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This paper addresses the practical implementation of a wireless sensors network designed to actualize cyber-physical systems that are dedicated to structural health monitoring applications in the construction domain. This network consists of a mesh grid composed of LoRaWAN battery-free wireless sensing nodes that collect physical data and communicating nodes that interface the sensing nodes with the digital world through the Internet. Two prototypes of sensing nodes were manufactured and are powered wirelessly by using a far-field wireless power transmission technique and only one dedicated RF energy source operating in the ISM 868 MHz frequency band.

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The ability to detect and respond to oxidative stress is crucial to the survival of living organisms. In cells, sensing of increased levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) activates many defensive mechanisms that limit or repair damage to cell components. The ROS-signaling responses necessary for cell survival under oxidative stress conditions remain incompletely understood, especially for the translational machinery.

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