December (1-15) 2014 Rhodes University Science & Pharmacy Faculties - publications/conference papers, etc.

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BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY : Hatherley, R. et al., Plasmodium falciparum Hop: Detailed analysis on complex formation with Hsp70 and Hsp90. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X14021445 [Accessed December 11, 2014].

BOTANY : Bentley, L., Barker, N.P. & Dold, A.P., 2015. Genetic diversity of the endangered Faucaria tigrina (Aizoaceae) through ISSR “fingerprinting” using automated fragment detection. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 58, pp.156–161. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030519781400324X [Accessed December 11, 2014].

CHEMISTRY : Pule, B.O., Degni, S. & Torto, N., 2015. Electrospun fibre colorimetric probe based on gold nanoparticles for on-site detection of 17β-estradiol associated with dairy farming effluents. Water SA, 41(1), pp.27–32.

CHEMISTRY : Khoza, P. & Nyokong, T., 2014. Photocatalytic behavior of phthalocyanine-silver nanoparticle conjugates supported on polystyrene fibers. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 395, pp.34–41. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1381116914003458 [Accessed December 5, 2014].

CHEMISTRY : Nyoni, S. & Nyokong, T., 2014. Development of Graphene/CdSe Quantum Dots-Co Phthalocyanine Nanocomposite for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Electroanalysis, 26(10), pp.2261–2272. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/elan.201400372/abstract [Accessed December 4, 2014].

CHEMISTRY : Oluwole, D.O. & Nyokong, T., 2015. Physicochemical behavior of nanohybrids of mono and tetra substituted carboxyphenoxy phthalocyanine covalently linked to GSH–CdTe/CdS/ZnS quantum dots. Polyhedron, 87, pp.8–16. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027753871400686X [Accessed December 11, 2014].

CHEMISTRY : Sekhosana, K.E. et al., Synthesis, photophysical and nonlinear optical behavior of neodymium based trisphthalocyanine. Inorganica Chimica Acta. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020169314007282 [Accessed December 11, 2014].

CHEMISTRY : Sekhosana, K.E., Amuhaya, E. & Nyokong, T., 2015. Nanosecond nonlinear optical limiting properties of new trinuclear lanthanide phthalocyanines in solution and as thin films. Polyhedron, 85, pp.347–354. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277538714005701 [Accessed December 9, 2014].

CHEMISTRY : van Wyk, A.W.W. et al., 2007. New Isocopalane diterpene diester from a sub-Antarctic marine nudibranch. ARKIVOC : free online journal of organic chemistry / Arkat-USA, Inc, 2007(ix), pp.121–128. Available at: http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/2061/ [Accessed December 2, 2014].

COMPUTER SCIENCE : Haffejee, J. & Irwin, B., 2014. Testing antivirus engines to determine their effectiveness as a security layer. In Information Security for South Africa (ISSA), 2014. Information Security for South Africa (ISSA), 2014. pp. 1–6.

COMPUTER SCIENCE : Pennefather, S. & Irwin, B., 2014. An exploration of geolocation and traffic visualisation using network flows. In Information Security for South Africa (ISSA), 2014. Information Security for South Africa (ISSA), 2014. pp. 1–6.

COMPUTER SCIENCE : Wrench, P.M. & Irwin, B.V.W., 2014. Towards a sandbox for the deobfuscation and dissection of PHP malware. In Information Security for South Africa (ISSA), 2014. Information Security for South Africa (ISSA), 2014. pp. 1–8.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : Hoossein, S., Whittington-Jones, K. & Tandlich, R., Sanitation policy and prevention of environmental contamination in South Africa. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 13(6), pp.1335–1340. Available at: http://omicron.ch.tuiasi.ro/EEMJ/pdfs/vol13/no6/2_1070_Hoossein_13.pdf.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : Kaoma, H. & Shackleton, C.M., 2014. Homestead greening is widespread amongst the urban poor in three medium-sized South African towns. Urban Ecosystems, 17(4), pp.1191–1207. Available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-014-0362-3 [Accessed December 2, 2014].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : Luckert, M.K. et al., 2014. Contribution of baobab production activities to household livelihoods. In Bark: Use, Management, and Commerce in Africa. Advances in economic botany. N.Y.: New York Botanical Garden Press Dept.

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : Schlesinger, J., Drescher, A. & Shackleton, C.M., 2015. Socio-spatial dynamics in the use of wild natural resources: Evidence from six rapidly growing medium-sized cities in Africa. Applied Geography, 56, pp.107–115. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622814002689 [Accessed December 11, 2014].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE : Thondhlana, G. & Muchapondwa, E., 2014. Dependence on environmental resources and implications for household welfare: Evidence from the Kalahari drylands, South Africa. Ecological Economics, 108, pp.59–67. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800914003139 [Accessed December 5, 2014].

GEOGRAPHY : Forbes, B. & Kepe, T., 2014. Smallholder farmers’ attitudes toward the provision of drinking water for dairy cows in Kagera, Tanzania. Tropical Animal Health and Production, pp.1–7. Available at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11250-014-0737-8 [Accessed December 11, 2014].

GEOGRAPHY : Masefield, V., McGregor, G. & Whitfield, A., 2014. Does estuarine health relate to catchment land-cover in the East Kleinemonde system, South Africa? African Journal of Aquatic Science, 0(0), pp.1–8. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2014.973357 [Accessed December 3, 2014].

GEOGRAPHY : Tessaro, D. & Kepe, T., 2014. “Development” at the crossroads: biodiversity and land-use tensions on South Africa’s Wild Coast. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 21(5), pp.471–479. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2014.959090 [Accessed December 4, 2014].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE : Henriques, R. et al., 2014. Incipient genetic isolation of a temperate migratory coastal sciaenid fish (Argyrosomus inodorus) within the Benguela Cold Current system. Marine Biology Research, 0(0), pp.1–7. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2014.952309 [Accessed December 4, 2014].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH : Gordon, A.K., Griffin, N.J. & Palmer, C.G., 2014. The relationship between concurrently measured SASS (South African Scoring System) and turbidity data archived in the South African River Health Programme’s Rivers Database. Water SA, 41(1), pp.21–26. Available at: http://www.ajol.info/index.php/wsa/article/view/110361 [Accessed December 8, 2014].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH : Slaughter, A.R., Mantel, S.K. & Hughes, D.A., Investigating possible climate change and development effects on water quality within an arid catchment in South Africa: a comparison of two models. In Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs) June 15-19, 2014, San Diego, California, USA. 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. San Diego, Calif. Available at: http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2014/papers/iemss2014_submission_318.pdf.

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH : Willems, P. et al., 2014. Editorial for Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 1, pp.A1–A5. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221458181400007X [Accessed December 15, 2014].

MATHEMETICS : Hees, A., Bertone, S. & Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., 2014. Light propagation in the field of a moving axisymmetric body: Theory and applications to the Juno mission. Physical Review D, 90(8), p.084020. Available at: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.084020 [Accessed December 4, 2014].

PHARMACY : Ashmita Ramanah, R.B.W., 2014. Development and Validation of an in vitro Release Test for Ketoconazole (KZ) on semi-solid Dosage Forms. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/2.1.4539.0402.

PHARMACY : Hoossein, S., Whittington-Jones, K. & Tandlich, R., Sanitation policy and prevention of environmental contamination in South Africa. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, 13(6), pp.1335–1340. Available at: http://omicron.ch.tuiasi.ro/EEMJ/pdfs/vol13/no6/2_1070_Hoossein_13.pdf.

PHARMACY : Moyo, F. & Tandlich, R., 2014. Daphnia Pulex Toxicity Testing of Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid Tetrasodium Salt Dihydrate and the Wastewater Effluent from Extraction of Rhodium using Emulsion Liquid Membranes. International Journal of Environmental Research, 8(4), pp.1019–1026. Available at: http://www.ijer.ir/article_795_8.html [Accessed December 4, 2014].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS : Coenen, T. et al., 2014. The LOFAR pilot surveys for pulsars and fast radio transients. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 570, p.A60. Available at: http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2014/10/aa24495-14/aa24495-14.html [Accessed December 4, 2014].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS : Nelles, A. et al., Measuring a Cherenkov ring in the radio emission from air showers at 110-190 MHz with LOFAR. Astroparticle Physics. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927650514001844 [Accessed December 4, 2014].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS : Nsengiyumva, S., Chithambo, M.L. & Pichon, L., 2014. Influence of nitrogen implantation on thermoluminescence of synthetic quartz. Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, 0(0), pp.1–12. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10420150.2014.968853 [Accessed December 2, 2014].

STATISTICS : Asta Rau, S.R., 2014. Students perceiving risk: a quantitative assessment on three South African university campuses. African Sociological Review, 18(1), pp.65–90. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269092444_Students_perceiving_risk_a_quantitative_assessment_on_three_South_African_university_campuses.

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY : Fusi, M. et al., 2014. Thermal specialization across large geographical scales predicts the resilience of mangrove crab populations to global warming. Oikos, p.n/a–n/a. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.01757/abstract [Accessed December 2, 2014].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY : Goble, T.A., Conlong, D.E. & Hill, M.P., 2014. Virulence of Beauveria brongniartii and B. bassiana against Schizonycha affinis white grubs and adults (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of Applied Entomology, p.n/a–n/a. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jen.12182/abstract [Accessed December 3, 2014].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY : Kramer, R. et al., 2015. Utilization of mangrove crab-burrow micro-habitats by the goby Redigobius dewaali: Evidence for dominance hierarchy. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 462, pp.1–7. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098114002731 [Accessed December 5, 2014].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY : Nakin, M. & McQuaid, C., 2014. Marine reserve effects on population density and size structure of commonly and rarely exploited limpets in South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 36(3), pp.303–311. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2014.946091 [Accessed December 4, 2014].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY : van Wyk, A.W.W. et al., 2007. New Isocopalane diterpene diester from a sub-Antarctic marine nudibranch. ARKIVOC : free online journal of organic chemistry / Arkat-USA, Inc, 2007(ix), pp.121–128. Available at: http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/2061/ [Accessed December 2, 2014].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY : Vogel, S.M. et al., 2014. Elephant (Loxodonta africana) impact on trees used by nesting vultures and raptors in South Africa. African Journal of Ecology, 52(4), pp.458–465. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12140/abstract [Accessed December 15, 2014].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY : Wang, R. et al., 2015. The impact of fig wasps (Chalcidoidea), new to the Mediterranean, on reproduction of an invasive fig tree Ficus microcarpa (Moraceae) and their potential for its biological control. Biological Control, 81, pp.21–30. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1049964414002217 [Accessed December 2, 2014].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY : Weidberg, N. et al., Mechanisms of nearshore retention and offshore export of mussel larvae over the Agulhas Bank. Journal of Marine Systems. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924796314003170 [Accessed December 4, 2014].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY : Welch, R.J. et al., 2015. Somewhere to hide: Home range and habitat selection of cheetahs in an arid, enclosed system. Journal of Arid Environments, 114, pp.91–99. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196314002456 [Accessed December 11, 2014].