February 2013 Rhodes Science & Pharmacy Faculty publications

As per alerts received from ScienceDirect, Scopus & ISI Web of Science during February 2013.  This list is therefore not exhaustive. 

 

Adegoke, O. & Nyokong, T. 2013, "Probing the sensitive and selective luminescent detection of peroxynitrite using thiol-capped CdTe and CdTe@ZnS quantum dots", Journal of Luminescence, vol. 134, pp. 448-455.

Adetunji, J., Everitt, S. & Rollinson, H. 2013, "New Mössbauer measurements of Fe3+/ΣFe ratios in chromites from the early Proterozoic Bushveld Complex, South Africa", Precambrian Research, vol. 228, pp. 194-205.

Antunes, E., Rapulenyane, N., Ledwaba, M., Litwinski, C., Chidawanyika, W. & Nyokong, T. 2013, "The synthesis and characterisation of magnetic nanoparticles and their interaction with a zinc phthalocyanine", Inorganic Chemistry Communications, vol. 29, pp. 60-64.

Arlinghaus, R., Cooke, S.J. & Potts, W. 2013, "Towards resilient recreational fisheries on a global scale through improved understanding of fish and fisher behaviour", Fisheries Management and Ecology, .

Baldanzi, S., McQuaid, C.D., Cannicci, S. & Porri, F. 2013, "Environmental Domains and Range-Limiting Mechanisms: Testing the Abundant Centre Hypothesis Using Southern African Sandhoppers", PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 1.

Bulgakov, R.A., Kuznetsova, N.A., Dolotova, O.V., Shevchenko, E.N., Plyutinskaya, A.D., Kaliya, O.L. & Nyokong, T. 2012, "Covalent conjugates of ammine and diamine platinum(II) with zinc(II) octacarboxyphthalocyanine", Macroheterocycles, vol. 5, no. 4-5, pp. 350-357.

Choiniere, J.N., Forster, C.A. & De Klerk, W.J. 2012, "New Information on Nqwebasaurus Thwazi, a Coelurosaurian Theropod from the Early Cretaceous (Hauteriverian?) Kirkwood Formation in South Africa", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 32, pp. 78-78.

Clark, V.R., Perera, S.J., Stiller, M., Stirton, C.H., Weston, P.H., Stoev, P., Coombs, G., Morris, D.B., Ratnayake-Perera, D., Barker, N.P. & McGregor, G.K. 2012, "A rapid multi-disciplinary biodiversity assessment of the Kamdebooberge (Sneeuberg, Eastern Cape, South Africa): Implications for conservation", SpringerPlus, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-10.

Cundill, G. & Rodela, R. 2012, "A review of assertions about the processes and outcomes of social learning in natural resource management", Journal of environmental management, vol. 113, pp. 7-14.

Dalu, T., Clegg, B. & Nhiwatiwa, T. 2012, "Macroinvertebrate communities associated with littoral zone habitats and the influence of environmental factors in Malilangwe Reservoir, Zimbabwe", Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, , no. 406.

Dalu, T., Thackeray, Z., Leuci, R., Clegg, B., Chari, L.D. & Nhiwatiwa, T. 2013, "First results on bathymetry, stratification and physicochemical limnology of a small tropical African reservoir (Malilangwe, Zimbabwe)", Water SA, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 119-130.

Darko, G., Chigome, S., Lillywhite, S., Tshentu, Z., Darkwa, J. & Torto, N. 2013, "Sorption of toxic metal ions in aqueous environment using electrospun polystyrene fibres incorporating diazole ligands", Water SA, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 39-46.

Davy, J. & Göbel, M. 2013, "The effects of a self-selected nap opportunity on the psychophysiological, performance and subjective measures during a simulated industrial night shift regimen", Ergonomics, .

Dilley, B.J., Davies, D., Connan, M., Cooper, J., de Villiers, M., Swart, L., Vandenabeele, S., Ropert-Coudert, Y. & Ryan, P.G. 2013, "Giant petrels as predators of albatross chicks", Polar Biology, , pp. 1-6.

Erni, B., Bonnevie, B.T., Oschadleus, H.-., Altwegg, R. & Underhill, L.G. 2013, "Moult: An R package to analyze moult in birds", Journal of Statistical Software, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 1-23.

Fauzee, A.F.B. & Walker, R.B. 2013, "Forced degradation studies of clobetasol 17-propionate in methanol, propylene glycol, as bulk drug and cream formulations by RP-HPLC", Journal of Separation Science, .

Forster, C.A., Poole, K.E., De Klerk, W.J., Chinsamy-Turan, A. & Roberts, E.M. 2012, "A New Taxon of Iguanodontoid Dinosaur from the Kirkwood Formation (Valanginian) of South Africa Based on an Assemblage of Juvenile Specimens", Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 32, pp. 95-95.  (link is to the abstract of a paper delivered at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology October 17 – 20, 2012

Ganino, C., Harris, C., Arndt, N.T., Prevec, S.A. & Howarth, G.H. 2013, "Assimilation of carbonate country rock by the parent magma of the Panzhihua Fe-Ti-V deposit (SW China): Evidence from stable isotopes", Geoscience Frontiers, .

Hermsen, W., et al  … (C Tasse [RU] post doc of Prof O M Smirnov)  2013, "Synchronous X-ray and radio mode switches: A rapid global transformation of the pulsar magnetosphere", Science, vol. 339, no. 6118, pp. 436-439.

Heywood, I., Bielby, R.M., Hill, M.D., Metcalfe, N., Rawlings, S., Shanks, T. & Smirnov, O.M. 2013, "Sub-millimetre source identifications and the microjansky source population at 8.4ghz in thewilliam herschel deep field", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 428, no. 2, pp. 935-951.

Hughes, D.A., Tshimanga, R.M., Tirivarombo, S. & Tanner, J. 2013, "Simulating wetland impacts on stream flow in southern Africa using a monthly hydrological model", Hydrological Processes, .

Khoza, P., Antunes, E., Chen, J. & Nyokong, T. 2013, "Synthesis and photophysicochemical studies of a water soluble conjugate between folic acid and zinc tetraaminophthalocyanine", Journal of Luminescence, vol. 134, pp. 784-790.

L'vov, B.V. & Galwey, A.K. 2013, "Catalytic oxidation of CO on platinum Thermochemical approach", Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, vol. 111, no. 1, pp. 145-154.

Marlin, D., Hill, M.P., Ripley, B.S., Strauss, A.J. & Byrne, M.J. 2013, "The effect of herbivory by the mite Orthogalumna terebrantis on the growth and photosynthetic performance of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)", Aquatic Botany, vol. 104, pp. 60-69.

Midgley, J.M., Collett, I.J. & Villet, M.H. 2012, "The distribution, habitat, diet and forensic significance of the scarab Frankenbergerius forcipatus (Harold, 1881) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)", African Invertebrates, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 745-749.

Mishra, S., Pant, R. & Murali, V. 2012, "Fixed point theorems for a class of maps in normed Boolean vector spaces", Fixed Point Theory and Applications, vol. 2012.

Moore, G.R. & Hill, M.P. 2012, "A quantitative post-release evaluation of biological control of water lettuce, Pistia stratiotes L. (Araceae) by the weevil Neohydronomus affinis Hustache (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) at Cape Recife Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa", African Entomology, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 380-385.

Olomola, T.O., Klein, R., Mautsa, N., Sayed, Y. & Kaye, P.T. 2013, "Synthesis and evaluation of coumarin derivatives as potential dual-action HIV-1 protease and reverse transcriptase inhibitors", Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, .

Osborne, G., Thinyane, H. & Slay, J. 2012, Visualizing information in digital forensics.  In: Advances in Digital Forensics VIII, 2012

Padayachee, E.R. & Whiteley, C.G. 2013, "Interaction of glycine zipper fragments of Aβ-peptides with neuronal nitric oxide synthase: Kinetic, thermodynamic and spectrofluorimetric analysis", Neuropeptides, . In Press, Corrected Proof

Patil, S.A., Chigome, S., Hägerhäll, C., Torto, N. & Gorton, L. 2013, "Electrospun carbon nanofibers from polyacrylonitrile blended with activated or graphitized carbonaceous materials for improving anodic bioelectrocatalysis", Bioresource technology, vol. 132, pp. 121-126.

Raubenheimer, L. & Van Der Merwe, A.J. 2012, "Bayesian inferences on nonlinear functions of Poisson rates", South African Statistical Journal, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 299-326.

Rose, P. & Dunn, K. 2013, "A high rate ponding unit operation linking treatment of tannery effluent and Arthrospira (Spirulina) biomass production. 1: Process development", Biomass and Bioenergy, .

Samant, B.S. & Chakaingesu, C. 2013, "Novel naphthoquinone derivatives: Synthesis and activity against human African trypanosomiasis", Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 1420-1423.

Sennuga, A., van Marwijk, J. & Whiteley, C.G. 2013, "Multiple fold increase in activity of ferroxidase-apoferritin complex by silver and gold nanoparticles", Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 185-193.

Taylor, C.L. & Barker, N.P. 2012, "Species limits in Vachellia (Acacia) karroo (Mimosoideae: Leguminoseae): Evidence from automated ISSR DNA "fingerprinting"", South African Journal of Botany, vol. 83, pp. 36-43.

Tombe, S., Antunes, E. & Nyokong, T. "Electrospun fibers functionalized with phthalocyanine-gold nanoparticle conjugates for photocatalytic applications", Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, , no. 0.

Xu, H.-., MacK, J., Wu, D., Xue, Z.-., Descalzo, A.B., Rurack, K., Kobayashi, N. & Shen, Z. 2012, "Synthesis and properties of fused-ring-expanded porphyrins that were core-modified with Group 16 heteroatoms", Chemistry - A European Journal, vol. 18, no. 52, pp. 16844-16867.

Yatawatta, S., et al…..    Smirnov, O., C Tasse ….. 2013, "Initial deep LOFAR observations of epoch of reionization windows: I. the north celestial pole", Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 550.

Zengeya, T.A., Robertson, M.P., Booth, A.J. & Chimimba, C.T. 2013, "A qualitative ecological risk assessment of the invasive Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus in a sub-tropical African river system (Limpopo River, South Africa)", Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 51-64.

Zugle, R. & Nyokong, T. 2013, "Comparative phototransformation of environmental pollutants using metallophthalocyanines supported on electrospun polymer fibers", Journal of Applied Polymer Science, vol. 128, no. 2, pp. 1131-1142.