Science & Pharmacy Research Output: October 2018

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BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Adeoyo, O.R., Pletschke, B.I. & Dames, J.F. 2018. Purification and characterization of an amyloglucosidase from an ericoid mycorrhizal fungus (Leohumicola incrustata). AMB Express, 8: 154. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-018-0685-1 [Accessed 31 October 2018].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Sibanda, T., Selvarajan, R., Msagati, T., Venkatachalam, S. & Meddows-Taylor, S. 2019. Defunct gold mine tailings are natural reservoir for unique bacterial communities revealed by high-throughput sequencing analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 650(Part 2): 2199–2209. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.380 [Accessed 31 October 2018].

BOTANY: Bentley, L.K., Robertson, M.P. & Barker, N.P. 2018. Range contraction to a higher elevation: the likely future of the montane vegetation in South Africa and Lesotho. Biodiversity and Conservation. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1643-6 [Accessed 31 October 2018].

BOTANY: McKenzie, R.J. 2018. (2634) Proposal to reject the name arctotis ludwigii (asteraceae: Arctotideae). Taxon, 67(4): 815–816. Available: https://doi.org/10.12705/674.19 [Accessed 31 October 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Ayeni, A.O. & Watkins, G.M. 2018. Synthesis and evaluation of catecholase activities of metal complexes of 1,4-substituted piperazine Mannich base of 4-acetamidopheno. Turkish Journal of Chemistry, 42: 1275–1284. Available: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/chem/abstract.htm?id=23367 [Accessed 31 October 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Matlou, G.G., Oluwole, D.O. & Nyokong, T. 2019. Evaluation of the photosensitizing properties of zinc and indium tetra cinnamic acid phthalocyanines linked to magnetic nanoparticles on human breast adenocarcinoma cells. Journal of Luminescence, 205: 385–392. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2018.09.054 [Accessed 31 October 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Sekhosana, K.E., Nkhahle, R. & Nyokong, T. 2018. The Primary Demonstration of Exciton Coupling Effects on Optical Limiting Properties of Blue Double-Decker Lanthanide Phthalocyanine Salts. ChemistrySelect, 3: 6671–6682. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201800597 [Accessed 31 October 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Senthilkumar, S., Goswami, R., Smith, V.J., Bajaj, H.C. & Neogi, S. 2018. Pore Wall-Functionalized Luminescent Cd(II) Framework for Selective CO2 Adsorption, Highly Specific 2,4,6-Trinitrophenol Detection, and Colorimetric Sensing of Cu2+ Ions. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 6(8): 10295–10306. Available: https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b01646 [Accessed 31 October 2018].

CHEMISTRY: Sobola, A.O., Watkins, G.M. & van Brecht, B. 2018. Synthesis, characterization and biological study of Cu(II) complexes of aminopyridine and (aminomethyl) pyridine Schiff bases. Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 83(7-8): 809–819. Available: https://doi.org/10.2298/JSC170913002S [Accessed 31 October 2018].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Van Heerden, R., Von Solms, S. & Vorster, J. 2018. Major security incidents since 2014: An African perspective. Presented at the 2018 IST-Africa Week Conference, IST-Africa 2018.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Fox, H. & Cundill, G. 2018. Towards increased community-engaged ecological restoration: A review of current practice and future directions. Ecological Restoration, 36(3): 208–218. Available: http://0-search.ebscohost.com.wam.seals.ac.za/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=132634192&site=ehost-live&scope=site [Accessed 31 October 2018].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Gouws, A.J. & Shackleton, C.M. 2019. Abundance and correlates of the Acacia dealbata invasion in the northern Eastern Cape, South Africa. Forest Ecology and Management, 432: 455–466. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.09.048 [Accessed 31 October 2018].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Hebinck, P., Mtati, N. & Shackleton, C. 2018. More than just fields: Reframing deagrarianisation in landscapes and livelihoods. Journal of Rural Studies, 61: 323–334. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.01.004 [Accessed 31 October 2018].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Pullanikkatil, D., Mograbi, P.J., Palamuleni, L., Ruhiiga, T. & Shackleton, C. 2018. Unsustainable trade-offs: provisioning ecosystem services in rapidly changing Likangala River catchment in southern Malawi. Environment, Development and Sustainability. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-018-0240-x [Accessed 01 November 2018].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Shackleton, S.E. & Hebinck, P. 2018. Through the “Thick and Thin” of farming on the Wild Coast, South Africa. Journal of Rural Studies, 61: 277–289. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.01.012 [Accessed 01 November 2018].

GEOGRAPHY: Melly, B.L., McGregor, G., Hofmeyr, G.J.G. & Plön, S. 2018. Spatio-temporal distribution and habitat preferences of cetaceans in Algoa Bay, South Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 98(5): 1065–1079. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315417000340 [Accessed 01 November 2018].

HUMAN KINETICS AND ERGONOMICS: Searle, H. & Todd, A. 2019. Networks and Cities in a Dynamic Society. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 825: 841–850. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96068-5_90.

HUMAN KINETICS AND ERGONOMICS: Zschernack, S. & Bennett, C. 2019. The effects of food packaging on driving performance when eating while driving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 823: 332–342. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96074-6_36.

HUMAN KINETICS AND ERGONOMICS: Zschernack, S., Göbel, M. & Hoyi, Z. 2019. The effects of the type of rest breaks on return-to-task performance in semi-automated tasks with varying complexities. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 823: 592–600. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96074-6_61.

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Ortega-Cisneros, K., Cochrane, K.L., Fulton, E.A., Gorton, R. & Popova, E. 2018. Evaluating the effects of climate change in the southern Benguela upwelling system using the Atlantis modelling framework. Fisheries Oceanography, 27(5): 489–503. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12268 [Accessed 01 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Agnello, A., Lin, H., Kuropatkin, N., Buckley-Geer, E., Anguita, T., Schechter, P.L., Morishita, T., Motta, V., Rojas, K., Treu, T., Amara, A., Auger, M.W., Courbin, F., Fassnacht, C.D., Frieman, J., More, A., Marshall, P.J., McMahon, R.G., Meylan, G., Suyu, S.H., Glazebrook, K., Morgan, N., Nord, B., Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F.B., Annis, J., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Lévy, K., Bertin, E., Bernstein, R.A., Brooks, D., Burke, D.L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Cunha, C.E., D’Andrea, C.B., da Costa, L.N., Desai, S., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T.F., Flaugher, B., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D.W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., James, D.J., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M.A.G., March, M., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Ogando, R.L.C., Plazas, A.A., 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., Tucker, D. & Wechsler, R. 2018. DES meets Gaia: Discovery of strongly lensed quasars from a multiplet search. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(4): 4345–4354. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1419 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Ali, Z.S., Parsons, A.R., Zheng, H., Pober, J.C., Liu, A., Aguirre, J.E., Bradley, R.F., Bernardi, G., Carilli, C.L., Cheng, C., DeBoer, D.R., Dexter, M.R., Grobbelaar, J., Horrell, J., Jacobs, D.C., Klima, P., MacMahon, D.H.E., Maree, M., Moore, D.F., Razavi, N., Stefan, I.I., Walbrugh, W.P. & Walker, A. 2018. PAPER-64 Constraints on Reionization: The 21 cm Power Spectrum at z = 8.4 (vol 809, 61, 2015). Astrophysical Journal, 863(2): 201. Available: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad7b4 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Avila, S., Crocce, M., Ross, A.J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Percival, W.J., Banik, N., Camacho, H., Kokron, N., Chan, K.C., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Gomes, R., Gomes, D., Lima, M., Rosenfeld, R., Salvador, A.I., Friedrich, O., Abdalla, F.B., Annis, J., Benoit-Levy, A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Kind, M.C., Carretero, J., Castander, F.J., Cunha, C.E., da Costa, L.N., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., Doel, P., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Gerdes, D.W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W.G., Hollowood, D., Honscheid, K., James, D.J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Miquel, R., Plazas, A.A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D. & Walker, A.R. 2018. Dark Energy Survey Year-1 results: galaxy mock catalogues for BAO. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(1): 94–110. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1389 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Becker, J.C., Khain, T., Hamilton, S.J., Adams, F.C., Gerdes, D.W., Zullo, L., Franson, K., Millholland, S., Bernstein, G.M., Sako, M., Bernardinelli, P., Napier, K., Markwardt, L., Lin, H.W., Wester, W., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Rosell, A.C., Kind, M.C., Carretero, J., Cunha, C.E., D’Andrea, C.B., da Costa, L.N., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., Diehl, H.T., Doel, P., Eifler, T.F., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W.G., Hollowood, D.L., Honscheid, K., James, D.J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Maia, M. a. G., March, M., Marshall, J.L., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Ogando, R.L.C., Plazas, A.A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Smith, R.C., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C. & Walker, A.R. 2018. Discovery and Dynamical Analysis of an Extreme Trans-Neptunian Object with a High Orbital Inclination. Astronomical Journal, 156(2): 81. Available: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aad042.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Castignani, G., Combes, F., Salomé, P., Andreon, S., Pannella, M., Heywood, I., Trinchieri, G., Cicone, C., Davies, L.J.M., Owen, F.N. & Raichoor, A. 2018. Molecular gas in two companion cluster galaxies at z = 1.2. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 617: A103. Available: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201832887 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Chang, C., Baxter, E., Jain, B., Sanchez, C., Adhikari, S., Varga, T.N., Fang, Y., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E.S., Kravtsov, A., Gruen, D., Hartley, W., Huff, E.M., Jarvis, M., Kim, A.G., Prat, J., MacCrann, N., McClintock, T., Palmese, A., Rapetti, D., Rollins, R.P., Samuroff, S., Sheldon, E., Troxel, M.A., Wechsler, R.H., Zhang, Y., Zuntz, J., Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Levy, A., Bernstein, G.M., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Carnero Rosell, A., Kind, M.C., Carretero, J., D’Andrea, C.B., da Costa, L.N., Davis, C., Desai, S., Diehl, H.T., Dietrich, J.P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T.F., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D.W., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., James, D.J., Jeltema, T., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lima, M., March, M., Marshall, J.L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J.J., Nord, B., Ogando, R.L.C., Plazas, A.A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Smith, R.C., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G. & Weller, J. 2018. The Splashback Feature around DES Galaxy Clusters: Galaxy Density and Weak Lensing Profiles. Astrophysical Journal, 864(1): 83. Available: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad5e7.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Erkal, D., Li, T.S., Koposov, S.E., Belokurov, V., Balbinot, E., Bechtol, K., Buncher, B., Drlica-Wagner, A., Kuehn, K., Marshall, J.L., Martínez-Vázquez, C.E., Pace, A.B., Shipp, N., Simon, J.D., Stringer, K.M., Vivas, A.K., Wechsler, R.H., Yanny, B., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Annis, J., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D.L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., D’Andrea, C.B., da Costa, L.N., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., Doel, P., Eifler, T.F., Evrard, A.E., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D.W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W.G., Hollowood, D.L., Honscheid, K., James, D.J., Krause, E., Maia, M. a. G., March, M., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Ogando, R.L.C., Plazas, A.A., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Smith, R.C., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Tucker, D.L. & Walker, A.R. 2018. Modelling the Tucana III stream – a close passage with the LMC. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(3): 3148–3159. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2518 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Friedrich, O., Gruen, D., Derose, J., Kirk, D., Krause, E., McClintock, T., Rykoff, E.S., Seitz, S., Wechsler, R.H., Bernstein, G.M., Blazek, J., Chang, C., Hilbert, S., Jain, B., Kovacs, A., Lahav, O., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Cunha, C.E., D’Andrea, C.B., Da Costa, L.N., Davis, C., Desai, S., Diehl, H.T., Dietrich, J.P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T.F., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D.W., Giannantonio, T., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Honscheid, K., James, D.J., Jarvis, M., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lima, M., March, M., Marshall, J.L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J.J., Nord, B., Plazas, A.A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Troxel, M.A., Vikram, V. & Weller, J. 2018. Density split statistics: Joint model of counts and lensing in cells. Physical Review D, 98. Available: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.023508.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Grobler, T.L., Bernardi, G., Kenyon, J.S., Parsons, A.R. & Smirnov, O.M. 2018. Redundant interferometric calibration as a complex optimization problem. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(2): 2410–2420. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY357 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Henkel, C., Muehle, S., Bendo, G., Jozsa, G.I.G., Gong, Y., Viti, S., Aalto, S., Combes, F., Garcia-Burillo, S., Hunt, L.K., Mangum, J., Martin, S., Muller, S., Ott, J., van der Werf, P., Malawi, A.A., Ismail, H., Alkhuja, E., Asiri, H.M., Aladro, R., Alves, F., Ao, Y., Baan, W.A., Costagliola, F., Fuller, G., Greene, J., Impellizzeri, C.M.V., Kamali, F., Klessen, R.S., Mauersberger, R., Tang, X.D., Tristram, K., Wang, M. & Zhang, J.S. 2018. Molecular line emission in NGC 4945, imaged with ALMA. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 615: A155. Available: https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201732174.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Krause, F., Thomas, R.M., Zaroubi, S. & Abdalla, F.B. 2018. An Epoch of Reionization simulation pipeline based on BEARS. New Astronomy, 64: 9–30. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2018.03.004 [Accessed 02 November 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 HIX galaxy survey - II. HI kinematics of HI eXtreme galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(3): 3744–3780. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY387 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Molenaar, G., Makhathini, S., Girard, J.N. & Smirnov, O. 2018. Kliko—The scientific compute container format. Astronomy and Computing, 25: 1–9. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2018.08.003 [02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Mudd, D., Martini, P., Zu, Y., Kochanek, C., Peterson, B.M., Kessler, R., Davis, T.M., Hoormann, J.K., King, A., Lidman, C., Sommer, N.E., Tucker, B.E., Asorey, J., Hinton, S., Glazebrook, K., Kuehn, K., Lewis, G., Macaulay, E., Moeller, A., O’Neill, C., Zhang, B., Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Banerji, M., Benoit-Levy, A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Rosell, A.C., Carollo, D., Kind, M.C., Carretero, J., Cunha, C.E., D’Andrea, C.B., da Costa, L.N., Davis, C., Desai, S., Doel, P., Fosalba, P., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D.W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W.G., Honscheid, K., James, D.J., Kuhlmann, S., Kuropatkin, N., Lima, M., Maia, M. a. G., Marshall, J.L., McMahon, R.G., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Plazas, A.A., Romer, A.K., Sanchez, E., 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. & Walker, A.R. 2018. Quasar Accretion Disk Sizes from Continuum Reverberation Mapping from the Dark Energy Survey. Astrophysical Journal, 862(2): 123. Available: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac9bb.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Owolabi, O.P., Bolaji, O.S., Adeniyi, J.O., Oyeyemi, E.O.,            Rabiu, A.B. & Habarulema, J.B. 2018. Excursions of Interhemispheric Field-Aligned   Currents in Africa. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123(7): 6042–6053. Available: https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JA025083 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Prescott, M., Whittam, I.H., Jarvis, M.J., McAlpine, K., Richter, L.L., Fine, S., Mauch, T., Heywood, I. & Vaccari, M. 2018. The Stripe 82 1-2 GHz Very Large Array Snapshot Survey: Multiwavelength counterparts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 480(1): 707–721. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1789 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Rajwade, K., Chennamangalam, J., Lorimer, D. & Karastergiou, A. 2018. The Galactic halo pulsar population. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(3): 3094–3100. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1695 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Shipp, N., Drlica-Wagner, A., Balbinot, E., Ferguson, P., Erkal, D., Li, T.S., Bechtol, K., Belokurov, V., Buncher, B., Carollo, D., Kind, M.C., Kuehn, K., Marshall, J.L., Pace, A.B., Rykoff, E.S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Strigari, L., Vivas, A.K., Yanny, B., Zenteno, A., Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Avila, S., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D.L., Carretero, J., Castander, F.J., Cawthon, R., Crocce, M., Cunha, C.E., D’Andrea, C.B., da Costa, L.N., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H.T., Doel, P., Evrard, A.E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D.W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., James, D.J., Johnson, M.D., Krause, E., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lin, H., Maia, M. a. G., March, M., Martini, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C.J., Miquel, R., Nichol, R.C., Plazas, A.A., Romer, A.K., Sako, M., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Smith, M., Smith, R.C., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Tucker, D.L., Walker, A.R. & Wechsler, R.H. 2018. Stellar Streams Discovered in the Dark Energy Survey. Astrophysical Journal, 862: 114. Available: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aacdab.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Singh, V., Wadadekar, Y., Ishwara-Chandra, C.H., Sirothia, S., Sievers, J., Beelen, A. & Omont, A. 2017. On the nature of infrared-faint radio sources in the Subaru X-ray Deep and Very Large Array-VIMOS VLT Deep Survey fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(4): 4956–4973. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1536 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Spinelli, M., Bernardi, G. & Santos, M.G. 2018. Simulations of Galactic polarized synchrotron emission for Epoch of Reionization observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(1): 275–283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1457 [Accessed 02 November 2018].

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PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Wang, J., Zheng, Z., D’Souza, R., Mo, H., Józsa, G., Li, C., Kamphuis, P., Catinella, B., Shao, L., Lagos, C.P., Du, M. & Pan, Z. 2018. The prevalence of type III disc breaks in HI-rich and low-spin galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 479(4): 4292–4306. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1687 [Accessed 05 November 2018].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Barnes, R.S.K. 2018. Context dependency in the effect of Ulva-induced loss of seagrass cover on estuarine macrobenthic abundance and biodiversity. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2977 [Accessed 05 November 2018].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Marsberg, T., Jukes, M.D., Krejmer-Rabalska, M., Rabalski, L., Knox, C.M., Moore, S.D., Hill, M.P. & Szewczyk, B. 2018. Morphological, genetic and biological characterisation of a novel alphabaculovirus isolated from Cryptophlebia peltastica (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 157: 90–99. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2018.08.006 [Accessed 05 November 2018].

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ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Bouveroux, T.N., Caputo, M., Froneman, P.W. & Plon, S. 2018. Largest reported groups for the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) found in Algoa Bay, South Africa: Trends and potential drivers. Marine Mammal Science, 34(3): 645–665. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12471 [Accessed 06 November 2018].

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ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Finn, K.T., Parker, D.M., Bennett, N.C. & Zöttl, M. 2018. Contrasts in body size and growth suggest that high population density results in faster pace of life in damaraland mole-rats (Fukomys damarensis). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 96(8): 920–927. Available: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2017-0200.

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