Science & Pharmacy Research Output: May 2016

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ANTHROPOLOGY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Diedrich, A. & Aswani, S. 2016. Exploring the potential impacts of tourism development on social and ecological change in the Solomon Islands. Ambio, 1–11. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0781-x [Accessed 14 June 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Gai, L., Chen, J., Zhao, Y., Mack, J., Lu, H. & Shen, Z. 2016. Synthesis and properties of azulene-functionalized BODIPYs. RSC Advances, 6: 32124–32129. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6RA00743K [Accessed 14 June 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Kempgens, P. & Britton, J. 2016. Powder-XRD and 14N magic angle-spinning solid-state NMR spectroscopy of some metal nitrides. Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 54(4): 371–376. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrc.4395 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Lu, H., Mack, J., Nyokong, T., Kobayashi, N. & Shen, Z. 2016. Optically active BODIPYs. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 318: 1–15. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2016.03.015 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Nyokong, T. & Khene, S. 2016. Modification of Electrode Surfaces with Metallo Phthalocyanine Nanomaterial Hybrids, in: Zagal, J.H., Bedioui, F. (Eds.), Electrochemistry of N4 Macrocyclic Metal Complexes. Springer International Publishing, pp. 225–275. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31332-0_6 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Osifeko, O.L. & Nyokong, T. 2016. A comparative physicochemical study of unsymmetrical indium phthalocyanines in the presence of magnetic nanoparticles or quantum dots. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 69: 1050–1065. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2016.1152628 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Xue, Z., Wang, Y., Mack, J., Mkhize, S., Nyokong, T., Fang, Y., Ou, Z. & Kadish, K.M. 2016. Synthesis, characterization and electrochemistry of rhodium(III) complexes of meso-substituted [14]tribenzotriphyrin(2.1.1). RSC Advances, 6: 41919–41926. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6RA03028A [Accessed 14 June 2016].

COMPUTER SCIENCE & BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Kibet, C.K. & Machanick, P. 2016. Transcription factor motif quality assessment requires systematic comparative analysis. F1000Research, 4: 1429. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.7408.2 [Accessed 14 June2016].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Brown, D. & Bradshaw, K. 2015. An Investigation of Face and Fingerprint Feature-Fusion Guidelines, in: Kozielski, S., Mrozek, D., Kasprowski, P., Małysiak-Mrozek, B., Kostrzewa, D. (Eds.), Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures. Advanced Technologies for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 613: 585–599. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34099-9_45 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

ECONOMICS, DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS & STATISTICS: Botha, F., Snowball, J., de Klerk, V. & Radloff, S. 2015. Determinants of Student Satisfaction with Campus Residence Life at a South African University, in: Maggino, F. (Ed.), A New Research Agenda for Improvements in Quality of Life. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 17–35. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15904-1 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

ECONOMICS & ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Fraser, G.C.G., Hill, M.P. & Martin, J.A. 2016. Economic evaluation of water loss saving due to the biological control of water hyacinth at New Year’s Dam, Eastern Cape province, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 41: 227–234. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2016.1151765 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Chelleri, L., Kua, H.W., Rodríguez Sánchez, J.P., Nahiduzzaman, K.M. & Thondhlana, G. 2016. Are People Responsive to a More Sustainable, Decentralized, and User-Driven Management of Urban Metabolism? Sustainability, 8: 275. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su8030275 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Ndou, E. & Ruwanza, S. 2016. Soil and vegetation recovery following alien tree clearing in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. African Journal of Ecology. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aje.12305 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Ruwanza, S. 2016. Soil seed bank depletion as a mechanism of Lantana camara L. invasion. South African Journal of Plant and Soil, 33(4): 303-308. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC198011 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

GEOGRAPHY: Edwards, R.J., Ellery, W.N. & Dunlevey, J. 2016. The role of the in situ weathering of dolerite on the formation of a peatland: The origin and evolution of Dartmoor Vlei in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa. CATENA, 143: 232–243. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2016.04.016 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

GEOGRAPHY: McGiffin, E. 2016. Iimbongi of the resistance: praise poets, trade unions and extractive capitalism in apartheid South Africa. Green Letters, 20: 156–169. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2016.1163273 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

GEOGRAPHY: Pulley, S., Foster, I. & Collins, A.L. 2016. The impact of catchment source group classification on the accuracy of sediment fingerprinting outputs. Journal of Environmental Management. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.04.048 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Koutsoyiannis, D., Blöschl, G., Bárdossy, A., Cudennec, C., Hughes, D., Montanari, A., Neuweiler, I. & Savenije, H. 2016. Joint Editorial: Fostering innovation and improving impact assessment for journal publications in hydrology. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20: 1081–1084. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1081-2016 [Accessed 14 June 2016].

MATHEMATICS (PURE AND APPLIED): Bester, H.L., Larena, J. & Bishop, N.T. 2016. Numerically reconstructing the geometry of the Universe from data. ResearchGate. Available: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.07362 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

PHARMACY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY & CHEMISTRY: Svogie, A.L., Isaacs, M., Hoppe, H.C., Khanye, S.D. & Veale, C.G.L. 2016. Indolyl-3-ethanone-α-thioethers: A promising new class of non-toxic antimalarial agents. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 114: 79–88. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2016.02.056 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Giroletti, M., Massaro, F., D’Abrusco, R., Lico, R., Burlon, D., Hurley-Walker, N., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Morgan, J., Pavlidou, V., Bell, M., Bernardi, G., Bhat, R., Bowman, J.D., Briggs, F., Cappallo, R.J., Corey, B.E., Deshpande, A.A., Ewall-Rice, A., Emrich, D., Gaensler, B.M., Goeke, R., Greenhill, L.J., Hazelton, B.J., Hindson, L., Kaplan, D.L., Kasper, J.C., Kratzenberg, E., Feng, L., Jacobs, D., Kudryavtseva, N., Lenc, E., Lonsdale, C.J., Lynch, M.J., McKinley, B., McWhirter, S.R., Mitchell, D.A., Morales, M.F., Morgan, E., Oberoi, D., Offringa, A.R., Ord, S.M., Pindor, B., Prabu, T., Procopio, P., Riding, J., Rogers, A.E.E., Roshi, A., Udaya, S., Srivani, K.S., Subrahmanyan, R., Tingay, S.J., Waterson, M., Wayth, R.B., Webster, R.L., Whitney, A.R., Williams, A. & Williams, C.L. 2016. High-energy sources at low radio frequency: The Murchison Widefield Array view of Fermi blazars. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 588. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527817 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Heywood, I., Bannister, K.W., Marvil, J., Allison, J.R., Ball, L., Bell, M.E., Bock, D.C.-J., Brothers, M., Bunton, J.D., Chippendale, A.P., Cooray, F., Cornwell, T.J., De, B., Edwards, P., Gough, R., Gupta, N., Harvey-Smith, L., Hay, S., Hotan, A.W., Indermuehle, B., Jacka, C., Jackson, C.A., Johnston, S., Kimball, A.E., Koribalski, B.S., Lenc, E., Macleod, A., McClure-Griffiths, N., McConnell, D., Mirtschin, P., Murphy, T., Neuhold, S., Norris, R.P., Pearce, S., Popping, A., Qiao, R.Y., Reynolds, J.E., Sadler, E.M., Sault, R.J., Schinckel, A.E.T., Serra, P., Shimwell, T.W., Stevens, J., Tuthill, J., Tzioumis, A., Voronkov, M.A., Westmeier, T., Whiting, M.T., 2016. Wide-field broad-band radio imaging with phased array feeds: A pilot multi-epoch continuum survey with ASKAP-BETA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 457: 4160–4178. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw186 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Hobbs, G., Heywood, I., Bell, M.E., Kerr, M., Rowlinson, A., Johnston, S., Shannon, R.M., Voronkov, M.A., Ward, C., Banyer, J., Hancock, P.J., Murphy, T., Allison, J.R., Amy, S.W., Ball, L., Bannister, K., Bock, D.C.-J., Brodrick, D., Brothers, M., Brown, A.J., Bunton, J.D., Chapman, J., Chippendale, A.P., Chung, Y., DeBoer, D., Diamond, P., Edwards, P.G., Ekers, R., Ferris, R.H., Forsyth, R., Gough, R., Grancea, A., Gupta, N., Harvey-Smith, L., Hay, S., Hayman, D.B., Hotan, A.W., Hoyle, S., Humphreys, B., Indermuehle, B., Jacka, C.E., Jackson, C.A., Jackson, S., Jeganathan, K., Joseph, J., Kendall, R., Kiraly, D., Koribalski, B., Leach, M., Lenc, E., MacLeod, A., Mader, S., Marquarding, M., Marvil, J., McClure-Griffiths, N., McConnell, D., Mirtschin, P., Neuhold, S., Ng, A., Norris, R.P., O’Sullivan, J., Pearce, S., Phillips, C.J., Popping, A., Qiao, R.Y., Reynolds, J.E., Roberts, P., Sault, R.J., Schinckel, A.E.T., Serra, P., Shaw, R., Shimwell, T.W., Storey, M., Sweetnam, A.W., Tzioumis, A., Westmeier, T., Whiting, M. & Wilson, C.D. 2016. A pilot ASKAP survey of radio transient events in the region around the intermittent pulsar PSR J1107-5907. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456: 3948–3960. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2893 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Rowlinson, A., Bell, M.E., Murphy, T., Trott, C.M., Hurley-Walker, N., Johnston, S., Tingay, S.J., Kaplan, D.L., Carbone, D., Hancock, P.J., Feng, L., Offringa, A.R., Bernardi, G., Bowman, J.D., Briggs, F., Cappallo, R.J., Deshpande, A.A., Gaensler, B.M., Greenhill, L.J., Hazelton, B.J., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Lonsdale, C.J., McWhirter, S.R., Mitchell, D.A., Morales, M.F., Morgan, E., Oberoi, D., Ord, S.M., Prabu, T., Udaya Shankar, N., Srivani, K.S., Subrahmanyan, R., Wayth, R.B., Webster, R.L., Williams, A. & Williams, C.L. 2016. Limits on Fast Radio Bursts and other transient sources at 182 MHz using the Murchison Widefield Array. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458: 3506–3522. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw451 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Stewart, A.J., Fender, R.P., Broderick, J.W., Hassall, T.E., Muñoz-Darias, T., Rowlinson, A., Swinbank, J.D., Staley, T.D., Molenaar, G.J., Scheers, B., Grobler, T.L., Pietka, M., Heald, G., McKean, J.P., Bell, M.E., Bonafede, A., Breton, R.P., Carbone, D., Cendes, Y., Clarke, A.O., Corbel, S., de Gasperin, F., Eislöffel, J., Falcke, H., Ferrari, C., Grießmeier, J.-M., Hardcastle, M.J., Heesen, V., Hessels, J.W.T., Horneffer, A., Iacobelli, M., Jonker, P., Karastergiou, A., Kokotanekov, G., Kondratiev, V.I., Kuniyoshi, M., Law, C.J., van Leeuwen, J., Markoff, S., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Mulcahy, D., Orru, E., Pandey-Pommier, M., Pratley, L., Rol, E., Röttgering, H.J.A., Scaife, A.M.M., Shulevski, A., Sobey, C.A., Stappers, B.W., Tasse, C., van der Horst, A.J., van Velzen, S., van Weeren, R.J., Wijers, R. a. M.J., Wijnands, R., Wise, M., Zarka, P., Alexov, A., Anderson, J., Asgekar, A., Avruch, I.M., Bentum, M.J., Bernardi, G., Best, P., Breitling, F., Brüggen, M., Butcher, H.R., Ciardi, B., Conway, J.E., Corstanje, A., de Geus, E., Deller, A., Duscha, S., Frieswijk, W., Garrett, M.A., Gunst, A.W., van Haarlem, M.P., Hoeft, M., Hörandel, J., Juette, E., Kuper, G., Loose, M., Maat, P., McFadden, R., McKay-Bukowski, D., Moldon, J., Munk, H., Norden, M.J., Paas, H., Polatidis, A.G., Schwarz, D., Sluman, J., Smirnov, O., Steinmetz, M., Thoudam, S., Toribio, M.C., Vermeulen, R., Vocks, C., Wijnholds, S.J., Wucknitz, O. & Yatawatta, S. 2016. LOFAR MSSS: detection of a low-frequency radio transient in 400 h of monitoring of the North Celestial Pole. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 456: 2321–2342. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2797 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Torchinsky, S.A., Olofsson, A.O.H., Censier, B., Karastergiou, A., Serylak, M., Picard, P., Renaud, P. & Taffoureau, C. 2016. Characterization of a dense aperture array for radio astronomy. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 589: A77. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526706 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & BOTANY: Baldanzi, S., Gouws, G., Barker, N.P. & Fratini, S. 2016. Molecular evidence of distinct evolutionary units in the sandhopper Talorchestia capensis (Amphipoda, Talitridae) along South African coasts. Hydrobiologia, 1–12. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-016-2797-4 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Allanson, B.R., Human, L.R.D. & Claassens, L. 2016. Observations on the distribution and abundance of a green tide along an intertidal shore, Knysna Estuary. South African Journal of Botany. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2016.02.197 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Dalu, T., Bere, T. & Froneman, P.W. 2016. Assessment of water quality based on diatom indices in a small temperate river system, Kowie River, South Africa. Water SA, 42(2): 183–193. Available: http://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC188555 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Plass-Johnson, J.G., McQuaid, C.D. & Hill, J.M. 2016. Morphologically similar, coexisting hard corals (Porites lobata and P. solida) display similar trophic isotopic ratios across reefs and depths. Marine and Freshwater Research, 67: 671–676. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF14248 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Toscano, B.J., Gownaris, N.J., Heerhartz, S.M. & Monaco, C.J. 2016. Personality, foraging behavior and specialization: integrating behavioral and food web ecology at the individual level. Oecologia, 1–15. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3648-8 [Accessed 15 June 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Welch, R.J., Tambling, C.J., Bissett, C., Gaylard, A., Müller, K., Slater, K., Strauss, W.M. & Parker, D.M. 2016. Brown hyena habitat selection varies among sites in a semi-arid region of southern Africa. Journal of Mammalogy, 97: 473–482. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyv189 [Accessed 15 June 2016].