August 2013 : Rhodes University : Science & Pharmacy Faculty publications

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ALBANY MUSEUM:     Gess, R.W. 2013, "The earliest record of terrestrial animals in Gondwana: A scorpion from the Famennian (Late Devonian) Witpoort Formation of South Africa", African invertebrates, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 373-379..(see Telegraph report on this important discovery) (see report in Grocott's Mail)

BIOCHEMISTRY:          Oyatsi, F. & Whiteley, C.G. 2013, "Interaction of superoxide dismutase with the glycine zipper regions of beta-amyloid peptides: Is there an implication towards Alzheimer's disease and oxidative stress?", Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 727-733.

BOTANY/ZOOLOGY:   Labandeira, C.C. & Currano, E.D. 2013, "The Fossil Record of Plant-Insect Dynamics", Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol 41, vol. 41, pp. 287-+ dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-050212-124139.

BOTANY:         Botha, C.E.J. 2013, "A tale of two neglected systems—structure and function of the thin- and thick-walled sieve tubes in monocotyledonous leaves", Frontiers in plant science

CHEMISTRY:    Adegoke, O. & Nyokong, T. 2013, "Fluorescence "turn on" probe for bromide ion using nanoconjugates of glutathione-capped CdTe@ZnS quantum dots with nickel tetraamino-phthalocyanine: Characterization and size-dependent properties", Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A-Chemistry, vol. 265, pp. 58-66.

CHEMISTRY:    Obuseng, V.C., Mookantsa, B.M., Okatch, H., Mosepele, K. & Torto, N. 2013, "Extraction of Pesticides from Plants using Solid Phase Microextraction and QuEChERS", South African Journal of Chemistry, vol. 66, pp. 183-188.

CHEMISTRY:    Ogbodu, R.O., Antunes, E. & Nyokong, T. 2013, "Physicochemical properties of zinc monoamino phthalocyanine conjugated to folic acid and single walled carbon nanotubes", Polyhedron, vol. 60, pp. 59-67.

CHEMISTRY:    Qu, X., Li, C., Chen, H., Mack, J., Guo, Z. & Shen, Z. 2013, "A red fluorescent turn-on probe for hydrogen sulfide and its application in living cells", Chemical Communications, vol. 49, no. 68, pp. 7510-7512.

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Gouws, L., Bradshaw, K. & Wentworth, P. 2013, "Computational thinking in educational activities: An evaluation of the educational game Light-Bot", Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE, pp. 10.

DIFS:    Chakona, A., Swartz, E.R. & Gouws, G. 2013, "Evolutionary Drivers of Diversification and Distribution of a Southern Temperate Stream Fish Assemblage: Testing the Role of Historical Isolation and Spatial Range Expansion", PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 8, pp..

DIFS:    Kadye, W.T., Chakona, A., Marufu, L.T. & Samukange, T. 2013, "The impact of non-native rainbow trout within Afro-montane streams in eastern Zimbabwe", Hydrobiologia, , pp. 1-14.

DIFS:    Kaiser, H., Orford, R., Thornycroft, R., Naylor, M., Field, R., Sheppard, J. & Magellan, K. 2013, "The effects of competitor density on aggressive behaviour and resource defence in a Poeciliid fish", Journal of Applied Ichthyology, , pp..

DIFS:    Vousden, D. & Stapley, J. 2013, "Evolving new Governance approaches for the Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems through Dynamic Management Strategies and partnerships", Environmental Development, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 32-45.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE:   Grundling, P., Grootjans, A.P., Price, J.S. & Ellery, W.N. 2013, "Development and persistence of an African mire: How the oldest South African fen has survived in a marginal climate", Catena, vol. 110, pp. 176-183.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE:   Shackleton, C.M. & Pandey, A.K. 2013, "Positioning non-timber forest products on the development agenda", Forest Policy and Economics, , pp..

GEOLOGY:       Roberts, D.L., Sciscio, L., Herries, A.I.R., Scott, L., Bamford, M.K., Musekiwa, C. & Tsikos, H. 2013, "Miocene fluvial systems and palynofloras at the southwestern tip of Africa: Implications for regional and global fluctuations in climate and ecosystems", Earth-Science Reviews, vol. 124, pp. 184-201.

IWR/PHARMACY:        Phyu, Y.L., Palmer, C.G., Warne, M.S.J., Dowse, R., Mueller, S., Chapman, J., Hose, G.C. & Lim, R.P. 2013, "Assessing the chronic toxicity of atrazine, permethrin, and chlorothalonil to the cladoceran Ceriodaphnia cf. dubia in laboratory and natural river water", Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 419-426.

IWR:    Munch, Z., Conrad, J.E., Gibson, L.A., Palmer, A.R. & Hughes, D. 2013, "Satellite earth observation as a tool to conceptualize hydrogeological fluxes in the Sandveld, South Africa", Hydrogeology Journal, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 1053-1070.

PHARMACY:    Gao, Y., Zuo, J., Bou-Chacra, N., Andreoli Pinto, T.d.J., Clas, S., Walker, R.B. & Loebenberg, R. 2013, "In Vitro Release Kinetics of Antituberculosis Drugs from Nanoparticles Assessed Using a Modified Dissolution Apparatus", Biomed Research International, , pp..

PHARMACY:    Srinivas, S.C., Wrench, W., Bradshaw, K. & Dukhi, N. 2013, "HIV/AIDS: Preliminary health promotion activity based on service-learning principles in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa", Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 106-112..

PHYSICS:          Brustein, R. & Medved, A.J.M. 2013, "Universal stress-tensor correlation functions of strongly coupled conformal fluids", Physics Letters B, vol. 724, no. 1-3, pp. 144-149..

PHYSICS:          Noto, L.L., Chitambo, M.L., Ntwaeaborwa, O.M. & Swart, H.C. 2013, "Photoluminescence and thermoluminescence properties of Pr3+ doped ZnTa2O6 phosphor", Powder Technology, vol. 247, pp. 147-150.

PHYSICS:          Pagonis, V., Chithambo, M.L., Chen, R., Chruscinska, A., Fasoli, M., Li, S.H., Martini, M. & Ramseyer, K. 2014, "Thermal dependence of luminescence lifetimes and radioluminescence in quartz", Journal of Luminescence, vol. 145, pp. 38-48.

ZOOLOGY:       Bownes, A., Hill, M.P. & Byrne, M.J. "The role of nutrients in the responses of water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes (Pontederiaceae) to herbivory by a grasshopper Cornops aquaticum Brüner (Orthoptera: Acrididae)", Biological Control

  (As per alerts received from ScienceDirect,  Scopus & ISI Web of Science during August 2013)