Science & Pharmacy Research Output: April 2019

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BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY & MATHEMATICS (PURE AND APPLIED): Sheik Amamuddy, O., Bishop, N.T. & Tastan Bishop, Ö. 2018. Characterizing early drug resistance-related events using geometric ensembles from HIV protease dynamics. Scientific Reports, 8. Available: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36041-8 [Accessed 02 May 2019].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Odame, F., Betz, R., Hosten, E.C., Krause, J., Isaacs, M., Hoppe, H.C., Khanye, S.D., Sayed, Y., Frost, P.C., Lobb, K.A. & Tshentu, Z.R. 2018. A New Synthetic Method for Tetraazatricyclic Derivatives and Evaluation of Their Biological Properties. ChemistrySelect, 3(48): 13613–13618. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201802930 [Accessed 02 May 2019].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Onosi, O., Upfold, N.S., Jukes, M.D., Luke, G.A. & Knox, C. 2019. The First Molecular Detection of Aichi Virus 1 in Raw Sewage and Mussels Collected in South Africa. Food and Environmental Virology, 11(1): 96–100. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-018-9362-4 [Accessed 02 May 2019].

BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTRE: Limson, J. 2018. Putting responsible research and innovation into practice: a case study for biotechnology research, exploring impacts and RRI learning outcomes of public engagement for science students. Synthese. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-02063-y [Accessed 02 May 2019].

BOTANY: Lundgren, M.R., Dunning, L.T., Olofsson, J.K., Moreno-Villena, J.J., Bouvier, J.W., Sage, T.L., Khoshravesh, R., Sultmanis, S., Stata, M., Ripley, B.S., Vorontsova, M.S., Besnard, G., Adams, C., Cuff, N., Mapaura, A., Bianconi, M.E., Long, C.M., Christin, P.-A. & Osborne, C.P. 2019. C 4 anatomy can evolve via a single developmental change. Ecology Letters, 22(2): 302–312. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13191 [Accessed 02 May 2019].

CHEMISTRY: Aspuru-Guzik, A., Baik, M.-H., Balasubramanian, S., Banerjee, R., Bart, S., Borduas-Dedekind, N., Chang, S., Chen, P., Corminboeuf, C., Coudert, F.-X., Cronin, L., Crudden, C., Cuk, T., Doyle, A.G., Fan, C., Feng, X., Freedman, D., Furukawa, S., Ghosh, S., Glorius, F., Jeffries-EL, M., Katsonis, N., Li, A., Linse, S.S., Marchesan, S., Maulide, N., Milo, A., Narayan, A.R.H., Naumov, P., Nevado, C., Nyokong, T., Palacin, R., Reid, M., Robinson, C., Robinson, G., Sarpong, R., Schindler, C., Schlau-Cohen, G.S., Schmidt, T.W., Sessoli, R., Shao-Horn, Y., Sleiman, H., Sutherland, J., Taylor, A., Tezcan, A., Tortosa, M., Walsh, A., Watson, A.J.B., Weckhuysen, B.M., Weiss, E., Wilson, D., Yam, V.W.-W., Yang, X., Ying, J.Y., Yoon, T., You, S.-L., Zarbin, A.J.G. & Zhang, H. 2019. Charting a course for chemistry. Nature Chemistry, 11: 286–294. Available: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0236-7.

CHEMISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY & PHARMACY: Mbaba, M., de la Mare, J.-A., Sterrenberg, J.N., Kajewole, D., Maharaj, S., Edkins, A.L., Isaacs, M., Hoppe, H.C. & Khanye, S.D. 2019. Novobiocin–ferrocene conjugates possessing anticancer and antiplasmodial activity independent of HSP90 inhibition. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 24(2): 139–149. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-018-1634-9 [Accessed 02 May 2019].

CHEMISTRY & BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTRE: Soy, R.C., Babu, B., Oluwole, D.O., Nwaji, N., Oyim, J., Amuhaya, E., Prinsloo, E., Mack, J. & Nyokong, T. 2019. Photophysicochemical properties and photodynamic therapy activity of chloroindium(III) tetraarylporphyrins and their gold nanoparticle conjugates. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 23(1-2): 34–45. Available: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1088424618501146 [Accessed 02 May 2019].

CHEMISTRY: Dube, E. & Nyokong, T. 2019. Effect of gold nanoparticle shape on the photophysicochemical properties of sulphur containing metallophthalocyanines. Journal of Molecular Structure, 1181: 312–320. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2018.12.091 [Accessed 02 May 2019].

CHEMISTRY: Mgidlana, S., Oluwole, D.O. & Nyokong, T. 2018. Effects of the carboxylic acid substituents on the photophysical and nonlinear optical properties of asymmetrical Zn(II) phthalocyanines–quantum dots conjugates. Inorganic and Nano-Metal Chemistry, 48(6): 296–307. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/24701556.2018.1503684 [Accessed 02 May 2019].

CHEMISTRY: Sen, P., Managa, M. & Nyokong, T. 2019. New type of metal-free and Zinc(II), In(III), Ga(III) phthalocyanines carrying biologically active substituents: Synthesis and photophysicochemical properties and photodynamic therapy activity. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 491: 1–8. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2019.03.010 [Accessed 02 May 2019].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Burke, I.D., Herbert, A. & Mooi, R. 2018. Using network flow data to analyse distributed reflection denial of service (DRDoS) attacks, as observed on the South African national research and education network (SANReN): a postmortem analysis of the memcached attack on the SANReN, in: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on - SAICSIT ’18. Presented at the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, ACM Press, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, pp. 164–170. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3278681.3278701 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Linklater, G., Smith, C., Herbert, A. & Irwin, B. 2018. Toward distributed key management for offline authentication, in: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on - SAICSIT ’18. Presented at the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, ACM Press, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, pp. 10–19. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3278681.3278683 [Accessed 06 May 2019].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Machanick, P. 2018. A preliminary study of minimal-contention locks, in: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on - SAICSIT ’18. Presented at the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, ACM Press, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, pp. 269–278. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1145/3278681.3278713 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Motara, Y.M. & van der Schyff, K. 2018. A functional ontology, in: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on - SAICSIT ’18. Presented at the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, ACM Press, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, pp. 49–54. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3278681.3278687 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Pennefather, S., Bradshaw, K. & Irwin, B. 2018. Extending the NFComms framework for bulk data transfers, in: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on   - SAICSIT ’18. Presented at the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, ACM Press, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, pp. 39–48. Available: https://doi.org/10.1145/3278681.3278686 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Gouws, A.J. & Shackleton, C.M. 2019. A spatio-temporal, landscape perspective on Acacia dealbata invasions and broader land use and cover changes in the northern Eastern Cape, South Africa. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 191: 74. Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7204-y [Accessed 03 May 2019].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Preiser, R., Biggs, R., De Vos, A. & Folke, C. 2018. Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: organizing principles for advancing research methods and approaches. Ecology and Society, 23(4): 46. Available:  https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10558-230446 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Ruwanza, S. 2018. The edge effect on plant diversity and soil properties in abandoned fields targeted for ecological restoration. Sustainability, 11(1): 140. Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11010140 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Ezenne, G.I., Jupp, L., Mantel, S.K. & Tanner, J.L. 2019. Current and potential capabilities of UAS for crop water productivity in precision agriculture. Agricultural Water Management, 218: 158–164. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2019.03.034 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

PHARMACY & BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Knott, M.G., de la Mare, J.-A., Edkins, A.L., Zhang, A., Stillman, M.J., Bolton, J.J., Antunes, E.M. & Beukes, D.R. 2019. Plaxenone A and B: Cytotoxic halogenated monoterpenes from the South African red seaweed Plocamium maxillosum. Phytochemistry Letters, 29: 182–185. Available: h https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytol.2018.12.009 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

PHARMACY & COMPUTER SCIENCE: Duxbury, T., Bradshaw, K., Khamanga, S., Tandlich, R. & Srinivas, S. 2019. Environmental health promotion at a National Science Festival: An experiential-education based approach. Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 0: 1–16. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015X.2019.1567406 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

PHARMACY & COMPUTER SCIENCE: Srinivas, S.C., Mtolo, L.T., Duxbury, T.O. & Bradshaw, K. 2018. Synergizing technology and health promotion for the prevention of tuberculosis. Journal for New Generation Sciences, 16: 127–141. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-151c4b1787 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Bell, M.E., Murphy, T., Hancock, P.J., Callingham, J.R., Johnston, S., Kaplan, D.L., Hunstead, R.W., Sadler, E.M., Croft, S., White, S.V., Hurley-Walker, N., Chhetri, R., Morgan, J.S., Edwards, P.G., Rowlinson, A., 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., Shankar, N.U., Srivani, K.S., Subrahmanyan, R., Tingay, S.J., Wayth, R.B., Webster, R.L., Williams, A. & Williams, C.L. 2019. The Murchison Widefield Array Transients Survey (MWATS). A search for low-frequency variability in a bright Southern hemisphere sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2): 2484–2501. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2801 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Crocce, M., Ross, A.J., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Gaztanaga, E., Elvin-Poole, J., Avila, S., Alarcon, A., Chan, K.C., Banik, N., Carretero, J., Sanchez, E., Hartley, W.G., Sanchez, C., Giannantonio, T., Rosenfeld, R., Salvador, A.I., Garcia-Fernandez, M., Garcia-Bellido, J., Abbott, T.M.C., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bechtol, K., Benoit-Levy, A., Bernstein, G.M., Bernstein, R.A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Carnero Rosell, A., Kind, M.C., Castander, F.J., Cawthon, R., Cunha, C.E., D’Andrea, C.B., da Costa, L.N., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Diehl, H.T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T.F., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D.W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D., Honscheid, K., Jain, B., James, D.J., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuhlmann, S., Kuropatkin, N., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. a. G., Marshall, J.L., Martini, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C.J., Miquel, R., Nichol, R.C., Percival, W.J., Plazas, A.A., Sako, M., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Scolnic, D., Sheldon, E., 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., Yanny, B. & Zhang, Y. 2019. Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: galaxy sample for BAO measurement. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2): 2807–2822. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2522 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Frontera-Pons, J., Sureau, F., Moraes, B., Bobin, J., Abdalla, F.B. & Starck, J.-L. 2018. Dictionary learning for photometric redshift estimation. Presented at the European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 1740–1744. Available: https://doi.org/10.23919/EUSIPCO.2018.8553011.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Kuiack, M., Huizinga, F., Molenaar, G., Prasad, P., Rowlinson, A. & Wijers, R.A.M.J. 2019. AARTFAAC flux density calibration and Northern hemisphere catalogue at. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(2): 2502–2514. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2810 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Philip, L., Abdurashidova, Z., Chiang, H.C., Ghazi, N., Gumba, A., Heilgendorff, H.M., Jáuregui-García, J.M., Malepe, K., Nunhokee, C.D., Peterson, J., Sievers, J.L., Simes, V. & Spann, R. 2018. Probing Radio Intensity at High-Z from Marion: 2017 Instrument. Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, 1950004. Available: https://doi.org/10.1142/S2251171719500041.

PHYSICS & ELECTRONICS: Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Hoyle, B., Marcha, M.J., Soumagnac, M.T., Bechtol, K., Drlica-Wagner, A., Abdalla, F., Aleksic, J., Avestruz, C., Balbinot, E., Banerji, M., Bertin, E., Bonnett, C., Brunner, R., Carrasco-Kind, M., Choi, A., Giannantonio, T., Kim, E., Lahav, O., Moraes, B., Nord, B., Ross, A.J., Rykoff, E.S., Santiago, B., Sheldon, E., Wei, K., Wester, W., Yanny, B., Abbott, T., Allam, S., Brooks, D., Carnero-Rosell, A., Carretero, J., Cunha, C., da Costa, L., Davis, C., de Vicente, J., Desai, S., Doel, P., Fernandez, E., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D.L., Honscheid, K., James, D., Jeltema, T., Kirk, D., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Li, T.S., Lima, M., Maia, M. a. G., March, M., McMahon, R.G., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Ogando, R.L.C., Plazas, A.A., Sanchez, E., 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. & Walker, A.R. 2018. Star-galaxy classification in the Dark Energy Survey Y1 data set. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 481(4): 5451–5469. Available: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2579 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Cuthbert, R.N., Dalu, T., Wasserman, R.J., Weyl, O.L.F., Callaghan, A., Froneman, W. & Dick, J.T.A. 2019. Sex-skewed trophic impacts in ephemeral wetlands. Freshwater Biology, 64(2): 359–366. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13228 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY & BOTANY: Ivey, P.J., Hill, M.P. & Coetzee, J.A. 2019. South Africa tackles invasive plants. Nature, 565: 161–161. Available: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00037-9 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY & BOTANY: Owen, C.A., van Noort, S., Compton, S.G. & Coetzee, J.A. 2019. Nest site choice by the intertidal spider Desis formidabilis (Araneae: Desidae) and nest utilisation by its hymenopteran egg parasitoid. Ecological Entomology, 44(1): 62–70. Available: https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12675 [Accessed 03 May 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Carpenter-Kling, T., Handley, J.M., Connan, M., Crawford, R.J.M., Makhado, A.B., Dyer, B.M., Froneman, W., Lamont, T., Wolfaardt, A.C., Landman, M., Sigqala, M. & Pistorius, P.A. 2019. Gentoo penguins as sentinels of climate change at the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Archipelago, Southern Ocean. Ecological Indicators, 101: 163–172. Available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.01.008 [Accessed 06 May 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Moore, S.D., Kirkman, W., Peyper, M., Thackeray, S.R., Marsberg, T., Albertyn, S. & Hill, M.P. 2018. Development of a Postharvest Cold Treatment for Cryptophlebia peltastica (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) for Export of Litchis from South Africa. Journal of Economic Entomology, 111(6): 2637–2643. Available:  https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toy287 [Accessed 06 May 2019].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Paterson, I.D., Manheimmer, C.A. & Zimmermann, H.G. 2019. Prospects for biological control of cactus weeds in Namibia. Biocontrol Science and Technology, 29(4): 393–399. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2018.1562040 [Accessed 06 May 2019].