Science & Pharmacy Research Output: July 2018

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ANTHROPOLOGY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Aswani, S., Basurto, X., Ferse, S., Glaser, M., Campbell, L., Cinner, J.E., Dalton, T., Jenkins, L.D., Miller, M.L., Pollnac, R., Vaccaro, I. & Christie, P. 2018. Marine resource management and conservation in the Anthropocene. Environmental Conservation, 45: 192–202. Available: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892917000431 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

ANTHROPOLOGY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Lagabrielle, E., Allibert, A., Kiszka, J.J., Loiseau, N., Kilfoil, J.P. & Lemahieu, A. 2018. Author Correction: Environmental and anthropogenic factors affecting the increasing occurrence of sharkhuman interactions around a fastdeveloping Indian Ocean island (Scientific Reports DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-21553-0). Scientific Reports, 8. Available: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-28406-w [Accessed 27 July 2018].

ANTHROPOLOGY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Lemahieu, A., Blaison, A., Crochelet, E., Bertrand, G., Pennober, G. & Soria, M. 2018. Corrigendum to “Human-shark interactions: The case study of Reunion island in the south-west Indian Ocean”[Ocean Coast. Manag. 136C (2016) 73–82]. Ocean & Coastal Management. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.06.009 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Slater, C., Mare, de L., Jo‑Anne & Edkins, A.L. 2018. In vitro analysis of putative cancer stem cell populations and chemosensitivity in the SW480 and SW620 colon cancer metastasis model. Oncology Letters, 15: 8516–8526. Available: https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2018.8431 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTRE: Del, A., Martínez-Pascual, S., Clemente-Suárez, V.J., Corral, O.J., Jordaan, J., Hormigo, D., Perona, A. & Fernández-Lucas, J. 2018. One-pot, one-step production of dietary nucleotides by magnetic biocatalysts. Catalysts, 8(5):184. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/catal8050184 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

BOTANY: Nackley, L.L., Betzelberger, A., Skowno, A., G. West, A., Ripley, B.S., Bond, W.J. & Midgley, G.F. 2018. CO2 enrichment does not entirely ameliorate Vachellia karroo drought inhibition: A missing mechanism explaining savanna bush encroachment. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 155: 98–106. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2018.06.018 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Oderinlo, O.O., Tukulula, M., Isaacs, M., Hoppe, H.C., Taylor, D., Smith, V.J. & Khanye, S.D. 2018. New thiazolidine-2,4-dione derivatives combined with organometallic ferrocene: Synthesis, structure and antiparasitic activity. Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 32. Available: https://doi.org/10.1002/aoc.4385 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY & BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTRE: Dube, E., Oluwole, D.O., Prinsloo, E. & Nyokong, T. 2018. A gold–chitosan composite with low symmetry zinc phthalocyanine for enhanced singlet oxygen generation and improved photodynamic therapy activity. New Journal of Chemistry, 42: 10214–10225. Available: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NJ00801A [Accessed 27 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Centane, S., Sekhosana, E.K., Matshitse, R. & Nyokong, T. 2018. Electrocatalytic activity of a push-pull phthalocyanine in the presence of reduced and amino functionalized graphene quantum dots towards the electrooxidation of hydrazine. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 820: 146–160. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelechem.2018.05.005 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Dube, E., Oluwole, D.O. & Nyokong, T. 2018. Improved Photophysical and Photochemical Properties of Thiopheneethoxy Substituted Metallophthalocyanines on Immobilization onto Gold-speckled Silica Nanoparticles. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 94: 521–531. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/php.12879 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Fonkui, T.Y., Ikhile, M.I., Muganza, F.M., Fotsing, M.C.D., Arderne, C., Siwe-Noundou, X., Krause, R.W.M., Ndinteh, D.T. & Njobeh, P.B. 2018. Synthesis, characterization and biological applications of novel Schiff bases of 2-(trifluoromethoxy) aniline. Journal of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences, 27(5): 307–323.

CHEMISTRY: Ion, R.-M., Nyokong, T., Nwahara, N., Suica-Bunghez, I.-R., Iancu, L., Teodorescu, S., Dulama, I.D., Stirbescu, R.M., Gheboianu, A. & Grigorescu, R.M. 2018. Wood preservation with gold hydroxyapatite system. Heritage Science, 6: 37. Available: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-018-0202-5 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Kumar, A., Khan, F.I. & Olaniran, A.O. 2018. Chloroacetaldehyde dehydrogenase from Ancylobacter aquaticus UV5: Cloning, expression, characterization and molecular modeling. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 114: 1117–1126. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.03.176 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Magadla, A., Oluwole, D.O., Britton, J. & Nyokong, T. 2018. Effect of nature of nanoparticles on the photophysicochemical properties of asymmetrically substituted Zn phthalocyanines. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 482: 438-446. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2018.06.043 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Mbeunkeu, A.B.D., Azebaze, A.G.B., Tala, M.F., Teinkela, J.E.M., Noundou, X.S., Krause, R.W.M., Vardamides, J.C. & Laatsch, H. 2018. Three new pentacyclic triterpenoids from twigs of Manniophyton fulvum (Euphorbiaceae). Phytochemistry Letters, 27: 1–8. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytol.2018.06.019 [Accessed 27 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Mwanza, D., Louzada, M., Britton, J., Sekhosana, E., Khene, S., Nyokong, T. & Mashazi, P. 2018. The effect of the cobalt and manganese central metal ions on the nonlinear optical properties of tetra(4-propargyloxyphenoxy)phthalocyanines. New Journal of Chemistry, 42(12): 9857–9864. Available: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NJ00748A [Accessed 27 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Ngoy, B.P., Hlatshwayo, Z., Nwaji, N., Fomo, G., Mack, J. & Nyokong, T. 2018. Photophysical and optical limiting properties at 532 nm of BODIPY dyes with p-benzyloxystyryl groups at the 3,5-positions. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 22(5): 413–422. Available: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1088424617500857 [Accessed 31 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Nwahara, N., Achadu, O.J. & Nyokong, T. 2018. In-situ synthesis of gold nanoparticles on graphene quantum dots-phthalocyanine nanoplatforms: First description of the photophysical and surface enhanced Raman scattering behaviour. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 359: 131–144. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2018.04.011 [Accessed 31 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Nwaji, N., Achadu, O.J. & Nyokong, T. 2018. Photo-induced resonance energy transfer and nonlinear optical response in ball-type phthalocyanine conjugated to semiconductor and graphene quantum dots. New Journal of Chemistry, 42(8), 6040–6050. Available: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NJ05196D [Accessed 31 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Nwaji, N., Dingiswayo, S., Mack, J. & Nyokong, T. 2018. Photophysical and enhanced nonlinear optical response in asymmetric benzothiazole substituted phthalocyanine covalently linked to semiconductor quantum dots. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 204: 629–639. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2018.06.098 [Accessed 31 July 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Oluwole, D.O., Nwaji, N., Nene, L.C., Mokone, L., Dube, E. & Nyokong, T. 2018. Novel nano-dyad of homoleptic sandwich-type phthalocyanines with nitrogen doped graphene quantum dots for nonlinear optics. New Journal of Chemistry, 42: 10124–10133. Available: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NJ01707G [Accessed 01 August 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Peteni, S. & Nyokong, T. 2018. Effect of doping vs covalent linking of a low symmetry zinc phthalocyanine to silica nanoparticles on singlet oxygen production. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 482: 431-43. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2018.06.029 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Shaibu, R. & Watkins, G. 2018. Synthesis, characterization and biological studies of cobalt(II) Schiff bases derived from o-vanillin with series of aromatic amines. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 255.

CHEMISTRY: Syed, S.B., Khan, F.I., Khan, S.H., Srivastava, S., Hasan, G.M., Lobb, K.A., Islam, A., Hassan, M.I. & Ahmad, F., 2018. Unravelling the unfolding mechanism of human integrin linked kinase by GdmCl-induced denaturation. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 117: 1252–1263. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.06.025 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Yuan, X., Li, M., Meng, T., Mack, J., Soy, R., Nyokong, T., Zhu, W., Xu, H. & Liang, X. 2018. Core-modified rubyrins with phenanthrene-fused pyrrole rings: Highly selective and tunable response to Hg2+ ions. Dyes and Pigments, 158: 188–194. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2018.05.045 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Pennefather, S. & Irwin, B. 2017. Design and application of link: A DSL for network frame manipulation. IEEE, pp. 48–55. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSA.2017.8251774.

ECONOMICS & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Snowball, J.D. & Shackleton, C.M. 2018. Factors enabling and constraining research in a small, research-intensive South African University. Research Evaluation, 27(2): 119–131. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvy002 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Ngorima, A. & Shackleton, C.M. 2018. Livelihood benefits and costs from an invasive alien tree ( Acacia dealbata ) to rural communities in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Journal of Environmental Management. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.05.077 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

GEOGRAPHY: Pulley, S., Ellery, W.N., Lagesse, J.V., Schlegel, P.K. & McNamara, S.J. 2018. Gully erosion as a mechanism for wetland formation: An examination of two contrasting landscapes. Land Degradation & Development, 29: 1756–1767. Available: https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.2972 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

GEOLOGY: Bordy, E.M., Bowen, D.A., Moore, J., Garnett, M.H. & Tsikos, H. 2018. A holocene “‘frozen accident’”: Sediments of extreme paleofloods and fires in the bedrock-confined upper huis river, western cape, South Africa. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 88: 696–716. Available: https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2018.29 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

GEOLOGY: Marsh, J.S. & Swart, R. 2018. The Bero Volcanic Complex: Extension of the Paraná-Etendeka Igneous Province into SW Angola. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, The Paraná-Etendeka igneous province and related magmatism, 355: 21–31. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.10.011 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

GEOLOGY: Rudolph, E.M., Meiklejohn, K.I., Hansen, C.D., Hedding, D.W. & Nel, W. 2018. Rock glaciers in the Jutulsessen, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica. Polish Polar Research, 39(1): 1–17. Available: https://doi.org/10.24425/118736 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

HUMAN KINETICS AND ERGONOMICS: Egwuonwu, A.V., Goebel, M. & Obi, P.C. 2019. Field Evaluation of Task Requirements of Mining Jobs in Nigerian Quarry Mines: A Pilot Study. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 789: 120–131. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94484-5_13.

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Nel, A., Jones, C.L.W., Britz, P.J. & Landzela, S. 2018. The Effect of Juvenile Abalone Haliotis midae (Linnaeus, 1758) Weaning Diet on Gut-Bacterial Formation. Journal of Shellfish Research, 37: 191–197. Available:  https://doi.org/10.2983/035.037.0117 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE & SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY: Mannheim, S.L., Childs, A.-R., Butler, E.C., Winkler, A.C., Parkinson, M.C., Farthing, M.W., Zweig, T., McCord, M., Drobniewska, N. & Potts, W.M. 2018. Working with, not against recreational anglers: Evaluating a pro-environmental behavioural strategy for improving catch-and-release behaviour. Fisheries Research, 206: 44–56. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2018.04.016 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

INFORMATION SYSTEMS & COMPUTER SCIENCE: Mnjama, J., Foster, G. & Irwin, B. 2018. A privacy and security threat assessment framework for consumer health wearables. Presented at the 2017 Information Security for South Africa. Proceedings of the 2017 ISSA Conference, pp. 66–73. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSA.2017.8251776.

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Gwate, O., Mantel, S.K., Gibson, L.A., Munch, Z. & Palmer, A.R. 2018. Exploring dynamics of evapotranspiration in selected land cover classes in a sub-humid grassland: A case study in quaternary catchment S50E, South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.05.011 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

PHARMACY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY & CHEMISTRY: Lunga, M.J., Chisango, R.L., Weyers, C., Isaacs, M., Taylor, D., Edkins, A.L., Khanye, S.D., Hoppe, H.C. & Veale, C.G.L. 2018. Expanding the SAR of Nontoxic Antiplasmodial Indolyl-3-ethanone Ethers and Thioethers. ChemMedChem, 13(13): 1353–1362. Available:  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cmdc.201800235 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

PHARMACY: Chigumete, T.G., Townsend, N. & Srinivas, S.C. 2018. Facilitating and limiting factors of workplace health promotion at Rhodes University, South Africa. Work, 59(4): 599–606. Available: https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-182707.

PHARMACY: Oltmann, C. 2018. Sports Pharmacy in South Africa – need or nonsense? SA Pharmaceutical Journal, 85(3): 50–50. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-f60956a7e [Accessed 01 August 2018].

PHARMACY: Yaripour, S., Mohammadi, A., Esfanjani, I., Walker, R.B. & Nojavan, S. 2018. Quantitation of Zolpidem in Biological Fluids by Electro-Driven Microextraction Combined with Hplc-Uv Analysis. EXCLI Journal, 17: 349–361. Available: https://doi.org/10.17179/excli2018-1140 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Abraham, S., Aniyan, A.K., Kembhavi, A.K., Philip, N.S. & Vaghmare, K. 2018. Detection of bars in galaxies using a deep convolutional neural network. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(1): 894–903. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty627 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Atemkeng, M., Smirnov, O., Tasse, C., Foster, G., Keimpema, A., Paragi, Z. & Jonas, J. 2018. Baseline-dependent sampling and windowing for radio interferometry: data compression, field-of-interest shaping, and outer field suppression. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4): 4511–4523. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty668 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Chithambo, M.L. & Kalita, J.M. 2018. Optically stimulated luminescence of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene: A study of dosimetric features. Radiation Measurements. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2018.06.006 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Collier, J.D., Tingay, S.J., Callingham, J.R., Norris, R.P., Filipović, M.D., Galvin, T.J., Huynh, M.T., Intema, H.T., Marvil, J., O’Brien, A.N., Roper, Q., Sirothia, S., Tothill, N.F.H., Bell, M.E., For, B.-Q., Gaensler, B.M., Hancock, P.J., Hindson, L., Hurley-Walker, N., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Kapińska, A.D., Lenc, E., Morgan, J., Procopio, P., Staveley-Smith, L., Wayth, R.B., Wu, C., Zheng, Q., Heywood, I. & Popping, A. 2018. High-resolution observations of low-luminosity gigahertz-peaked spectrum and compact steep-spectrum sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(1): 578–592. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty564 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Davis, C., Rozo, E., Roodman, A., Alarcon, A., Cawthon, R., Gatti, M., Lin, H., Miquel, R., Rykoff, E.S., Troxel, M.A., Vielzeuf, P., Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D.L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F.J., Crocce, M., Cunha, C.E., D’Andrea, C.B., Costa, D., N, L., Desai, S., Diehl, H.T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Neto, A.F., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D.W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., Jain, B., James, D.J., Jeltema, T., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuhlmann, S., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Li, T.S., Lima, M., March, M., Marshall, J.L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Ogando, R.L.C., Plazas, A.A., Romer, A.K., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Vikram, V., Walker, A.R. & Wechsler, R.H. 2018. Cross-correlation redshift calibration without spectroscopic calibration samples in DES Science Verification Data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(2): 2196–2208. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty787 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Dawam, R.R. & Chithambo, M.L. 2018. Thermoluminescence of annealed synthetic quartz: The influence of annealing on kinetic parameters and thermal quenching. Radiation Measurements. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2018.06.004 [Accessed 01 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Dillon, J.S., Kohn, S.A., Parsons, A.R., Aguirre, J.E., Ali, Z.S., Bernardi, G., Kern, N.S., Li, W., Liu, A., Nunhokee, C.D. & Pober, J.C. 2018. Polarized redundant-baseline calibration for 21 cm cosmology without adding spectral structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4): 5670–5681. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1060 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Hoyle, B., Gruen, D., Bernstein, G.M., Rau, M.M., De, V., Hartley, W.G., Gaztanaga, E., DeRose, J., Troxel, M.A., Davis, C., Alarcon, A., MacCrann, N., Prat, J., Sánchez, C., Sheldon, E., Wechsler, R.H., Asorey, J., Becker, M.R., Bonnett, C., Rosell, A.C., Carollo, D., Kind, M.C., Castander, F.J., Cawthon, R., Chang, C., Childress, M., Davis, T.M., Drlica-Wagner, A., Gatti, M., Glazebrook, K., Gschwend, J., Hinton, S.R., Hoormann, J.K., Kim, A.G., King, A., Kuehn, K., Lewis, G., Lidman, C., Lin, H., Macaulay, E., Maia, M.A.G., Martini, P., Mudd, D., Möller, A., Nichol, R.C., Ogando, R.L.C., Rollins, R.P., Roodman, A., Ross, A.J., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E.S., Samuroff, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sharp, R., Sommer, N.E., Tucker, B.E., Uddin, S.A., Varga, T.N., Vielzeuf, P., Yuan, F., Zhang, B., Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D.L., Busha, M.T., Capozzi, D., Carretero, J., Crocce, M., D’Andrea, C.B., da, C., DePoy, D.L., Desai, S., Diehl, H.T., Doel, P., Eifler, T.F., Estrada, J., Evrard, A.E., Fernandez, E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D.W., Giannantonio, T., Goldstein, D.A., Gruendl, R.A., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., James, D.J., Jarvis, M., Jeltema, T., Johnson, M.W.G., Johnson, M.D., Kirk, D., Krause, E., Kuhlmann, S., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Li, T.S., Lima, M., March, M., Marshall, J.L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Nord, B., O’Neill, C.R., Plazas, A.A., Romer, A.K., Sako, M., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Smith, M., Smith, R.C., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Tucker, D.L., Vikram, V., Walker, A.R., Weller, J., Wester, W., Wolf, R.C., Yanny, B. & Zuntz, J. 2018. Dark energy survey year 1 results: Redshift distributions of the weak-lensing source galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478(1): 592–610. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty957 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Lutz, K.A., Kilborn, V.A., Koribalski, B.S., Catinella, B., Józsa, G.I.G., Wong, O.I., Stevens, A.R.H., Obreschkow, D. & Dénes, H. 2018. The H ix galaxy survey – II. H i kinematics of H i eXtreme galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(3): 3744–3780. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty387 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Matamba, T.M. & Habarulema, J.B. 2018. Ionospheric Responses to CME- and CIR-Driven Geomagnetic Storms Along 30°E–40°E Over the African Sector From 2001 to 2015. Space Weather, 16(5): 538–556. Available: https://doi.org/10.1029/2017SW001754 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Matamba, T.M. & Habarulema, J.B. 2018. Ionospheric Responses to CME- and CIR-Driven Geomagnetic Storms Along 30°E–40°E Over the African Sector From 2001 to 2015. Space Weather, 16(5): 538–556. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1029/2017SW001754 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Molenaar, G. & Smirnov, O. 2018. KERN. Astronomy and Computing, 24: 45–51. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2018.03.004 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Mungufeni, P., Habarulema, J.B., Migoya-Orué, Y. & Jurua, E. 2018. Statistical analysis of the correlation between the equatorial electrojet and the occurrence of the equatorial ionisation anomaly over the East African sector. Annales Geophysicae, 36: 841–853. Available: https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-36-841-2018 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: O’Gorman, E., Coughlan, C.P., Vlemmings, W., Varenius, E., Sirothia, S., Ray, T.P. & Olofsson, H. 2018. A search for radio emission from exoplanets around evolved stars. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 612: A52. Available: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731965.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Rivera, J.D., Moraes, B., Merson, A.I., Jouvel, S., Abdalla, F.B. & Abdalla, M.C.B. 2018. Degradation analysis in the estimation of photometric redshifts from non-representative training sets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477(4): 4330–4347. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty880 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Sarma, M.P., Kalita, J.M. & Wary, G. 2018. X-ray sensing performance of ZnS:Cr film synthesised by a chemical bath deposition technique. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 276: 328–334. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2018.04.044 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Sindelarova, T., Mosna, Z., Chum, J., Kouba, D., Base, J., Liu, J.Y. & Katamzi-Joseph, Z. 2018. Solar eclipse effects in the ionosphere observed by continuous Doppler sounding. Advances in Space Research, 62: 785–800. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2018.05.029 [accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Thomas, S. & Chithambo, M.L. 2018. Characteristics of the thermoluminescence of Sm3+-doped P2O5-K2O-MgO-Al2O3-ZnF2 glass. Radiation Measurements. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2018.06.005 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Tshisaphungo, M., Habarulema, J.B. & McKinnell, L.-A. 2018. Modeling ionospheric foF2 response during geomagnetic storms using neural network and linear regression techniques. Advances in Space Research, 61(12): 2891–2903. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2018.03.025 [Accessed 02 August 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Zimba, G.L., Bvumbi, S.P., Masiteng, L.P., Jones, P., Sharpey-Schafer, J.F., Majola, S.N.T., Dinoko, T.S., Shirinda, O., Lawrie, J.J., Easton, J.E., Khumalo, N.A., Msebi, L., Mashita, P.I., Papka, P., Roux, D.G. & Negi, D. 2018. Yrare low-spin positive-parity states in N = 88 66 154 Dy. The European Physical Journal A, 54: 59. Available: https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2018-12496-3 [Accessed 03 August 2018].

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SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Kuguru, G., Maduna, S., Silva, da, Gennari, E., Rhode, C. & Bester-van, der M. 2018. DNA barcoding of chondrichthyans in South African fisheries. Fisheries Research, 206: 292–295. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2018.05.023 [Accessed 03 August 2018].

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ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Ismail, M. & Brooks, M. 2018. Male mating preference of two cryptic species of the herbivorous insect Eccritotarsus catarinensis. Biocontrol Science and Technology, 28(6): 529–543. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2018.1461196 [Accessed 03 August 2018].

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ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Horwitz, L.K., Bissett, C. & Brink, J. 2018. Recent Cheetah (acinonyx Jubatus) Kills as Carnivore “Feeding Hubs”: A Taphonomic Study of Prey Size and Age Differences. Quaternaire, 29(1): 5–12. Available:  https://doi.org/10.4000/quaternaire.8542.

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Marshall, D.C., Moulds, M., Hill, K.B.R., Price, B.W., Wade, E.J., Owen, C.L., Goemans, G., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Cooley, J.R., Sanborn, A.F., Kunte, K., Villet, M.H. & Simon, C. 2018. A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification. Zootaxa, 4424(1): 1–64. Available: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4424.1.1 [Accessed 03 August 2018].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY, SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Dalu, T., Wasserman, R.J., Tonkin, J.D., Alexander, M.E., Dalu, M.T.B., Motitsoe, S.N., Manungo, K.I., Bepe, O. & Dube, T. 2018. Corrigendum to “Assessing drivers of benthic macroinvertebrate community structure in African highlands: an exploration using multivariate analysis” [Sci. Total Environ. 601–602 (2017) 1340-1348]. Science of the Total Environment, 637–638: 934. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.086 [Accessed 03 August 2018].

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