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ALBANY MUSEUM : Gess, R.W. & Coates, M.I. 2014, "High-latitude Chondrichthyans from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Witpoort formation of South Africa", Palaontologische Zeitschrift, , pp. 1-23

ALBANY MUSEUM : Ridgeway, JA, Midgley, J., Collett, I. & Villet, M. 2014, "Advantages of using development models of the carrion beetles Thanatophilus micans (Fabricius) and T. mutilatus (Castelneau)(Coleoptera: Silphidae) for estimating minimum post mortem intervals, verified with case data", International journal of legal medicine, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 207-220

BIOCHEMISTRY & MICROBIOLOGY : Prinsloo,E., Cooper, L.C., Moyo, B., De La Mare, J.-., Lawson, J.C., Edkins, A.L. & Blatch, G.L. 2011, Heat shock proteins in normal and cancer stem cell biology: Implications for regenerative and chemotherapeutic medicine.

BIOCHEMISTRY, MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY : Adeleke,Rasheed & Dames, J.F. 2014, "Kalaharituber pfeilii and associated bacterial interactions", South African Journal of Botany, vol. 90, pp. 68-73

BIOCHEMISTRY, MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY : Kadye,Rose, Kramer, A.H., Joos-Vandewalle, J., Parsons, M., Njengele, Z., Hoppe, H. & Prinsloo, E. 2014, "Guardian of the Furnace: Mitochondria, TRAP1, ROS and Stem Cell Maintenance", IUBMB life, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 42-45

BOTANY : Martos, F., Johnson, S.D., Peter, C.I. & Bytebier, B. 2014-02-01T00:00:00, "A molecular phylogeny reveals paraphyly of the large genus Eulophia (Orchidaceae): A case for the reinstatement of Orthochilus", Taxon, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 9-23

BOTANY, ZOOLOGY & ENTOMOLOGY : Porter,S.N., Kaehler, S., Branch, G.M. & Sink, K.J. 2014, "Riverine subsidies for inshore filter-feeder communities: Potential influences on trophic patterns among bioregions", Marine Ecology Progress Series, vol. 498, pp. 13-26

CHEMISTRY : Kuzyniak, W., Adegoke, O., Sekhosana, K., D’Souza, S., Tshangana, S.C., Hoffmann, B., Ermilov, E.A., Nyokong, T. & Höpfner, M. "Synthesis and characterization of quantum dots designed for biomedical use", International journal of pharmaceutics, , no. 0, pp. Synthesis and characterization of quantum dots designed for biomedical use.

CHEMISTRY : Liang, X., Mack, J., Zheng, L.-., Shen, Z. & Kobayashi, N. 2014, "Phosphorus(V)-corrole: Synthesis, spectroscopic properties, theoretical calculations, and potential utility for in vivo applications in living cells", Inorganic chemistry, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 2797-2802

CHEMISTRY : Managa, M., Idowu, M.A., Antunes, E. & Nyokong, T. 2014, "Photophysicochemical behavior and antimicrobial activity of dihydroxosilicon tris(diaquaplatinum)octacarboxyphthalocyanine", Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, vol. 125, pp. 147-153

CHEMISTRY : Mpofu, S.J., Arotiba, O.A., Hlekelele, L., Ndinteh, D.T. & Krause, R.W.M. 2014, "Determination of catechins from Elephantorrhiza elephantina and Pentanisia prunelloides using voltammetry and UV spectroscopy", Natural Product Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 41-43

CHEMISTRY : Pamar, M.G., Govender, P., Muthusamy, K., Krause, R.M. & Nanjundaswamy, H.M. 2013, "Mg/Triethylammonium formate: A useful system for reductive dimerization of araldehydes into pinacols; Nitroarenes into azoarenes and azoarenes into hydrazoarenes", Oriental Journal of Chemistry, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 969-974

COMPUTER SCIENCE : Dibley, J. & Foss, R. 2013, "Implementation of AES-64 connection management for ethernet audio/video bridging devices", 135th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2013, pp. 513.

COMPUTER SCIENCE : Eales, A. & Foss, R. 2013, "Audio device representation, control and monitoring using SNMP", 135th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2013, pp. 602.

COMPUTER SCIENCE : Van Heerden,R., Pieterse, H., Burke, I. & Irwin, B. 2013, "Developing a virtualised testbed environment in preparation for testing of network based attacks", IEEE International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology, ICAST, pp. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/7218.

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY UNIT : Magellan, K., Pinchuck, S. & Swartz, E.R. 2014, "Short and long-term strategies to facilitate aerial exposure in a galaxiid", Journal of fish biology, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 748-758

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : De Lacy,P. & Shackleton, C.M. 2014, "The comparative growth rates of indigenous street and garden trees in Grahamstown, South Africa (Short communication)", South African Journal of Botany, vol. 92, no. 0, pp. 94-96

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : Kaoma, H. & Shackleton, C.M. 2014, "Collection of urban tree products by households in poorer residential areas of three South African towns", Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, , pp.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : Poppy, G.M., Chiotha, S., Eigenbrod, F., Harvey, C.A., Honzák, M., Hudson, M.D., Jarvis, A., Madise, N.J., Schreckenberg, K., Shackleton, C.M., Villa, F. & Dawson, T.P. 2014, "Food security in a perfect storm: Using the ecosystem services framework to increase understanding", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 369, no. 1639, pp.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : Shackleton,Charlie M. & Pandey, A.K. 2014, "Positioning non-timber forest products on the development agenda", Forest Policy and Economics, vol. 38, pp. 1-7

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : Spires, M., Shackleton, S. & Cundill, G. 2014, "Barriers to implementing planned community-based adaptation in developing countries: a systematic literature review", Climate and Development, , pp.

GEOGRAPHY, BOTANY : Clark, V.R., Dold, A.P., McMaster, C., McGregor, G., Bredenkamp, C. & Barker, N.P. 2014, "Rich sister, poor cousin: Plant diversity and endemism in the Great Winterberg-Amatholes (Great Escarpment, Eastern Cape, South Africa)", South African Journal of Botany, , pp.

GEOLOGY : Scoon, R.N. & Mitchell, A.A. 2014, "Discussion of "The Bushveld Complex, South Africa: Formation of platinum-palladium, chrome- and vanadium-rich layers via hydrodynamic sorting of a mobilized cumulate slurry in a large, relatively slowly cooling, subsiding magma chamber" by Maier et al. (2013) Miner Deposita 48:1-56", Mineralium Deposita, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 399-404 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00126-013-0480-5.

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ICHTHYOLOGY & FISHERIES RESEARCH : Miya,Tshoanelo, Gon, O., Mwale, M. & Cheng, C.-.C. 2014, "The effect of habitat temperature on serum antifreeze glycoprotein (AFGP) activity in Notothenia rossii (Pisces: Nototheniidae) in the Southern Ocean", Polar Biology, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 367-373

ICHTHYOLOGY & FISHERIES RESEARCH: Magellan, K., Pinchuck, S. & Swartz, E.R. 2014, "Short and long-term strategies to facilitate aerial exposure in a galaxiid", Journal of fish biology, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 748-758

ICHTHYOLOGY & FISHERIES SCIENCE : Pierce,G.J., Sauer, W., Allcock, A.L., Smith, J.M., Wangvoralak, S., Jereb, P., Hastie, L.C. & Lefkaditou, E. 2013 https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=46166, Loligo forbesii, veined squid.

ICHTHYOLOGY & FISHERIES SCIENCE : Sauer,W.H.H., Downey, N.J., Lipinski, M., Roberts, M.J., Smale, M.J., Shaw, P., Glazer, J. & Melo, Y. 2013 https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=46165, Loligo reynaudii, chokka squid.

ICTHYOLOGY & FISHERIES SCIENCE : Hoving,H.J.T. & Lipinski, M.R. 2014, "Observations on age and reproduction of the oceanic squid Ancistrocheirus lesueurii (d'Orbigny, 1842) (Cephalopoda: Ancistrocheiridae)", Journal of Natural History, , pp.

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH : Hughes,D.A., Desai, A.Y., Birkhead, A.L. & Louw, D. 2014, "A new approach to rapid, desktop-level, environmental flow assessments for rivers in South Africa", Hydrological Sciences Journal, , pp.

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH : Hughes,D.A., Gush, M., Tanner, J. & Dye, P. 2014, "Using targeted short-term field investigations to calibrate and evaluate the structure of a hydrological model", Hydrological Processes, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 2794-2809

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH : Hughes,D.A., Mantel, S. & Mohobane, T. 2014, "An assessment of the skill of downscaled GCM outputs in simulating historical patterns of rainfall variability in South Africa", Hydrology Research, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 134-147

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH : Mensah, P. K., Palmer, C.G. & Muller, W.J. 2014, "Lethal and Sublethal Effects of Pesticides on Aquatic Organisms: The Case of a Freshwater Shrimp Exposure to Roundup®" in Pesticides: toxic effects, eds. M.L. Larramendy & S. Sonia Soloneski, InTech, , pp. Chapter 7.

MATHEMATICS : Biggs, R. & Remsing, C.C. 2014, "Control Systems on Three-Dimensional Lie Groups: Equivalence and Controllability", Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, , pp.

MATHEMATICS : HL Bester and J Larena and PJ van der Walt,and N. 2014, "What's inside the cone? Numerically reconstructing the metric from observations", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol. 2014, no. 02, pp. 009

PHARMACY : Assi, N., Mohammadi, A., Sadr Manuchehri, Q. & Walker, R.B. 2014, "Synthesis and characterization of ZnO nanoparticle synthesized by a microwave-assisted combustion method and catalytic activity for the removal of ortho-nitrophenol", Desalination and Water Treatment, , pp.

PHARMACY : Tandlich, R., Chirenda, T.G. & Srinivas, C.S.S. 2013, "Preliminary assessment of the gender aspects of disaster vulnerability and loss of human life in South Africa", Jamba: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, pp..

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS : Foster, G., Hickish, J., Magro, A., Price, D. & Zarb Adami, K. 2014, "Implementation of a direct-imaging and FX correlator for the BEST-2 array", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 439, no. 3, pp. 3180-3188.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS : Chithambo,M.L. 2014, "A method for kinetic analysis and study of thermal quenching in thermoluminescence based on use of the area under an isothermal decay-curve", Journal of Luminescence, vol. 151, no. 0, pp. 235-243

STATISTICS : Shuttleworth-Edwards, A.B., Radloff, S.E., Whitefield-Alexander, V.J., Smith, I.P. & Horsman, M. 2014, "Practice Effects Reveal Visuomotor Vulnerability in School and University Rugby Players", Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 86-99

ZOOLOGY & ENTOMOLOGY : ALBANY MUSEUM : Ridgeway, JA, Midgley, J., Collett, I. & Villet, M. 2014, "Advantages of using development models of the carrion beetles Thanatophilus micans (Fabricius) and T. mutilatus (Castelneau)(Coleoptera: Silphidae) for estimating minimum post mortem intervals, verified with case data", International journal of legal medicine, vol. 128, no. 1, pp. 207-220

ZOOLOGY & ENTOMOLOGY : Bergamino,L., Dalu, T. & Richoux, N.B. 2014, "Evidence of spatial and temporal changes in sources of organic matter in estuarine sediments: stable isotope and fatty acid analyses", Hydrobiologia, , pp.

ZOOLOGY & ENTOMOLOGY : Coetzee,J.A., Jones, R.W. & Hill, M.P. 2014, "Water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes (Pontederiaceae), reduces benthic macroinvertebrate diversity in a protected subtropical lake in South Africa", Biodiversity and Conservation, , pp. 1-12

ZOOLOGY & ENTOMOLOGY : Eckelbarger,K.J. & Hodgson, A.N. 2014, "Ultrastructure of spermiogenesis and synthesis of enigmatic cytoplasmic inclusions in the spirally shaped spermatozoon of the polychaete Spio setosa (Annelida: Spionidae)", Invertebrate Biology, , pp.

ZOOLOGY & ENTOMOLOGY : Kohler,S.A., Connan, M., Kolasinski, J., Cherel, Y., Mcquaid, C.D. & Jaquemet, S. 2014, "Trophic overlap between sexes in the dimorphic African black oystercatcher foraging on an alien mussel", Austral Ecology, , pp..