Publications and Research Output: November 2015

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BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Gama, R., Van Dyk, J.S. & Pletschke, B.I. 2015. Optimisation of enzymatic hydrolysis of apple pomace for production of biofuel and biorefinery chemicals using commercial enzymes. 3 Biotech, 5: 1075–1087. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13205-015-0312-7 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Mukhopadhyay, A. & Chakrabarti, K. 2015. Enhancement of thermal and pH stability of an alkaline metalloprotease by nano-hydroxyapatite and its potential applications. RSC Advances, 5: 89346–89362. Available:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5RA16179G [Accessed 08 December 2015].

CHEMISTRY: Ngubeni, G.N., Britton, J., Mack, J., New, E., Hancox, I., Walker, M., Nyokong, T., Jones, T.S. & Khene, S. 2015. Spectroscopic and nonlinear optical properties of the four positional isomers of 4α-(4-tert-butylphenoxy)phthalocyanine. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 3: 10705–10714. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C5TC01601K [Accessed 08 December 2015].

CHEMISTRY: Tasso, T.T., Furuyama, T., Mack, J., Nyokong, T. & Kobayashi, N. 2015. Synthesis and Photophysical Investigation of Tetraazaporphyrin Substituted with Aggregation-Induced Emission (AIE) Active Moieties. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2015: 5516–5522. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201500726 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Gremu, C., Terzoli, A. & Tsietsi, M. 2015. The development of an e-Health system for health awareness campaigns in poor areas, in: IST-Africa Conference, 2015. Presented at the IST-Africa Conference, 2015, pp. 1–8. Available:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2015.7190527 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Lebusa, M., Thinyane, H. & Sieborger, I. 2015. Mobile visualisation techniques for large datasets, in: IST-Africa Conference, 2015. Presented at the IST-Africa Conference, 2015, pp. 1–9. Available:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2015.7190571 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Tsietsi, M., Honye, S. & Thinyane, H. 2015. Modelling the exposure of services within next generation telecommunication networks, in: IST-Africa Conference, 2015. Presented at the IST-Africa Conference, 2015, pp. 1–11. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2015.7190534 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Chishaleshale, M., Shackleton, C.M., Gambiza, J. & Gumbo, D. 2015. The prevalence of planning and management frameworks for trees and green spaces in urban areas of South Africa. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2015.09.012 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Kaoma, H. & Shackleton, C.M. 2015. The direct-use value of urban tree non-timber forest products to household income in poorer suburbs in South African towns. Forest Policy and Economics, 61: 104–112. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2015.08.005 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Ollis, D.J., Ewart-Smith, J.L., Day, J.A., Job, N.M., Macfarlane, D.M., Snaddon, C.D., Sieben, E.J.J., Dini, J.A. & Mbona, N. 2015. The development of a classification system for inland aquatic ecosystems in South Africa. Water SA, 41: 727–745. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/wsa.v41i5.16 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Shackleton, S. & Luckert, M. 2015. Changing Livelihoods and Landscapes in the Rural Eastern Cape, South Africa: Past Influences and Future Trajectories. Land, 4: 1060–1089. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land4041060 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

GEOGRAPHY: Boardman, J., Favis-Mortlock, D. & Foster, I. 2015. A 13-year record of erosion on badland sites in the Karoo, South Africa. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40: 1964–1981. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.3775 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

GEOGRAPHY: Foster, I., Rowntree, K., Ellery, F., Ogrinc, N. & Oldham, C., 2015. Preface: proceedings of the 13th IASWS international conference. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 15: 2347–2349. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11368-015-1276-2 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

GEOGRAPHY: Pulley, S., Rowntree, K. & Foster, I. 2015. Conservatism of mineral magnetic signatures in farm dam sediments in the South African Karoo: the potential effects of particle size and post-depositional diagenesis. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 15: 2387–2397. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11368-015-1265-5 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

HUMAN KINETICS AND ERGONOMICS: Pote, L. & Christie, C.J. 2015. Selected physiological and perceptual responses during a simulated limited overs century in non-elite batsmen. European Journal of Sport Science, 0: 1–7. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2015.1094145 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Britz, P. 2015. The history of South African inland fisheries policy with governance recommendations for the democratic era. Water SA, 41: 624–632. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/wsa.v41i5 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Filmalter, J., Cowley, P., Forget, F. & Dagorn, L. 2015. Fine-scale 3-dimensional movement behaviour of silky sharks Carcharhinus falciformis associated with fish aggregating devices (FADs). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 539: 207–223. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps11514 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE & SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY: Potts, W.M., Götz, A. & James, N. 2015. Review of the projected impacts of climate change on coastal fishes in southern Africa. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 25: 603–630. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11160-015-9399-5 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Hughes, D.A., Jewitt, G., Mahé, G., Mazvimavi, D. & Stisen, S. 2015. A review of aspects of hydrological sciences research in Africa over the past decade. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 0: 1–15. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2015.1072276 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Slaughter, A.R., Retief, D.C.H. & Hughes, D.A. 2015. A method to disaggregate monthly flows to daily using daily rainfall observations: model design and testing. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 0: 1–15. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2014.993987 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Tanner, J.L. & Hughes, D.A. 2015. Surface water–groundwater interactions in catchment scale water resources assessments—understanding and hypothesis testing with a hydrological model. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 0: 1–16. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2015.1052453 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

MATHEMATICS (PURE AND APPLIED): Bester, H.L., Larena, J. & Bishop, N.T. 2015. Towards the geometry of the Universe from data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453: 2364–2377. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1672 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

PHARMACY: Chirenda, T.G., Srinivas, S.C. & Tandlich, R. 2015. Microbial water quality of treated water and raw water sources in the Harare area, Zimbabwe. Water SA, 41: 691–697. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/wsa.v41i5 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

PHARMACY: Davies-Coleman, M.T. & Veale, C.G.L. 2015. Recent Advances in Drug Discovery from South African Marine Invertebrates. Marine Drugs, 13: 6366–6383. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md13106366 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Banfield, J.K., Wong, O.I., Willett, K.W., Norris, R.P., Rudnick, L., Shabala, S.S., Simmons, B.D., Snyder, C., Garon, A., Seymour, N., Middelberg, E., Andernach, H., Lintott, C.J., Jacob, K., Kapińska, A.D., Mao, M.Y., Masters, K.L., Jarvis, M.J., Schawinski, K., Paget, E., Simpson, R., Klöckner, H.-R., Bamford, S., Burchell, T., Chow, K.E., Cotter, G., Fortson, L., Heywood, I., Jones, T.W., Kaviraj, S., López-Sánchez, Á.R., Maksym, W.P., Polsterer, K., Borden, K., Hollow, R.P. & Whyte, L. 2015. Radio Galaxy Zoo: host galaxies and radio morphologies derived from visual inspection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453: 2326–2340. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1688 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Chithambo, M.L., Ankjærgaard, C. & Pagonis, V. 2016. Time-resolved luminescence from quartz: An overview of contemporary developments and applications. Physica B: Condensed Matter, 481: 8–18. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2015.10.014 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Heald, G.H., Pizzo, R.F., Orrú, E., Breton, R.P., Carbone, D., Ferrari, C., Hardcastle, M.J., Jurusik, W., Macario, G., Mulcahy, D., Rafferty, D., Asgekar, A., Brentjens, M., Fallows, R.A., Frieswijk, W., Toribio, M.C., Adebahr, B., Arts, M., Bell, M.R., Bonafede, A., Bray, J., Broderick, J., Cantwell, T., Carroll, P., Cendes, Y., Clarke, A.O., Croston, J., Daiboo, S., de Gasperin, F., Gregson, J., Harwood, J., Hassall, T., Heesen, V., Horneffer, A., van der Horst, A.J., Iacobelli, M., Jelić, V., Jones, D., Kant, D., Kokotanekov, G., Martin, P., McKean, J.P., Morabito, L.K., Nikiel-Wroczyński, B., Offringa, A., Pandey, V.N., Pandey-Pommier, M., Pietka, M., Pratley, L., Riseley, C., Rowlinson, A., Sabater, J., Scaife, A.M.M., Scheers, L.H.A., Sendlinger, K., Shulevski, A., Sipior, M., Sobey, C., Stewart, A.J., Stroe, A., Swinbank, J., Tasse, C., Trüstedt, J., Varenius, E., van Velzen, S., Vilchez, N., van Weeren, R.J., Wijnholds, S., Williams, W.L., de Bruyn, A.G., Nijboer, R., Wise, M., Alexov, A., Anderson, J., Avruch, I.M., Beck, R., Bell, M.E., van Bemmel, I., Bentum, M.J., Bernardi, G., Best, P., Breitling, F., Brouw, W.N., Brüggen, M., Butcher, H.R., Ciardi, B., Conway, J.E., de Geus, E., de Jong, A., de Vos, M., Deller, A., Dettmar, R.-J., Duscha, S., Eislöffel, J., Engels, D., Falcke, H., Fender, R., Garrett, M.A., Grießmeier, J., Gunst, A.W., Hamaker, J.P., Hessels, J.W.T., Hoeft, M., Hörandel, J., Holties, H.A., Intema, H., Jackson, N.J., Jütte, E., Karastergiou, A., Klijn, W.F.A., Kondratiev, V.I., Koopmans, L.V.E., Kuniyoshi, M., Kuper, G., Law, C., van Leeuwen, J., Loose, M., Maat, P., Markoff, S., McFadden, R., McKay-Bukowski, D., Mevius, M., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Morganti, R., Munk, H., Nelles, A., Noordam, J.E., Norden, M.J., Paas, H., Polatidis, A.G., Reich, W., Renting, A., Röttgering, H., Schoenmakers, A., Schwarz, D., Sluman, J., Smirnov, O., Stappers, B.W., Steinmetz, M., Tagger, M., Tang, Y., ter Veen, S., Thoudam, S., Vermeulen, R., Vocks, C., Vogt, C., Wijers, R.A.M.J., Wucknitz, O., Yatawatta, S. & Zarka, P. 2015. The LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS): I. Survey description and first results. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 582: A123. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201425210 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Loi, S.T., Murphy, T., Bell, M.E., Kaplan, D.L., Lenc, E., Offringa, A.R., Hurley-Walker, N., Bernardi, G., Bowman, J.D., Briggs, F., Cappallo, R.J., Corey, B.E., Deshpande, A.A., Emrich, D., Gaensler, B.M., Goeke, R., Greenhill, L.J., Hazelton, B.J., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Kasper, J.C., Kratzenberg, E., Lonsdale, C.J., Lynch, M.J., McWhirter, S.R., Mitchell, D.A., Morales, M.F., Morgan, E., Oberoi, D., Ord, S.M., Prabu, T., Rogers, A.E.E., Roshi, A., Shankar, N.U., Srivani, K.S., Subrahmanyan, R., Tingay, S.J., Waterson, M., Wayth, R.B., Webster, R.L., Whitney, A.R., Williams, A. & Williams, C.L. 2015. Quantifying ionospheric effects on time-domain astrophysics with the Murchison Widefield Array. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453: 2731–2746. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1808 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Ord, S.M., Crosse, B., Emrich, D., Pallot, D., Wayth, R.B., Clark, M.A., Tremblay, S.E., Arcus, W., Barnes, D., Bell, M., Bernardi, G., Bhat, N.D.R., Bowman, J.D., Briggs, F., Bunton, J.D., Cappallo, R.J., Corey, B.E., Deshpande, A.A., deSouza, L., Ewell-Wice, A., Feng, L., Goeke, R., Greenhill, L.J., Hazelton, B.J., Herne, D., Hewitt, J.N., Hindson, L., Hurley-Walker, N., Jacobs, D., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Kaplan, D.L., Kasper, J.C., Kincaid, B.B., Koenig, R., Kratzenberg, E., Kudryavtseva, N., Lenc, E., Lonsdale, C.J., Lynch, M.J., McKinley, B., McWhirter, S.R., Mitchell, D.A., Morales, M.F., Morgan, E., Oberoi, D., Offringa, A., Pathikulangara, J., Pindor, B., Prabu, T., Procopio, P., Remillard, R.A., Riding, J., Rogers, A.E.E., Roshi, A., Salah, J.E., Sault, R.J., Udaya Shankar, N., Srivani, K.S., Stevens, J., Subrahmanyan, R., Tingay, S.J., Waterson, M., Webster, R.L., Whitney, A.R., Williams, A., Williams, C.L. & Wyithe, J.S.B. 2015. The Murchison Widefield Array Correlator. PASA - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 32. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2015.5 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Perkins, S.J., Marais, P.C., Zwart, J.T.L., Natarajan, I., Tasse, C. & Smirnov, O. 2015. Montblanc1: GPU accelerated radio interferometer measurement equations in support of Bayesian inference for radio observations. Astronomy and Computing, 12: 73–85. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ascom.2015.06.003 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Tamhane, P., Wadadekar, Y., Basu, A., Singh, V., Ishwara-Chandra, C.H., Beelen, A. & Sirothia, S. 2015. J021659-044920: a relic giant radio galaxy at z ∼ 1.3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453: 2438–2446. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1768 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Wang, J., Serra, P., Józsa, G.I.G., Koribalski, B., Hulst, T. van der, Kamphuis, P., Li, C., Fu, J., Xiao, T., Overzier, R., Wieringa, M. & Wang, E. 2015. An H i view of galaxy conformity: H i-rich environment around H i-excess galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 453: 2399–2411. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1767 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Elston, C., Brandis, R. von, & Cowley, P.D. 2015. Gastric lavage as a non-lethal method for stingray (Myliobatiformes) diet sampling. African Journal of Marine Science, 37: 415–419. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2015.1076519 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Antonio, E.S. & Richoux, N.B. 2015. Tide-Induced Variations in the Fatty Acid Composition of Estuarine Particulate Organic Matter. Estuaries and Coasts, 1–12. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12237-015-0049-x [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Defraeye, T., Nicolai, B., Kirkman, W., Moore, S., Niekerk, S. van, Verboven, P. & Cronjé, P. 2016. Integral performance evaluation of the fresh-produce cold chain: A case study for ambient loading of citrus in refrigerated containers. Postharvest Biology and Technology, 112: 1–13. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postharvbio.2015.09.033 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Henry, L., Craig, A.J.F.K., Lemasson, A. & Hausberger, M. 2015. Social coordination in animal vocal interactions. Is there any evidence of turn-taking? The starling as an animal model. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1416. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01416 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Mangan, R., Dirilgen, T. & Baars, J.R. 2015. Responses of adult Hydrellia lagarosiphon to a revised diet: implications for life cycle studies and laboratory culturing techniques. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 157: 164–169. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eea.12350 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Monaco, C.J., Wethey, D.S., Gulledge, S. & Helmuth, B. 2015. Shore-level size gradients and thermal refuge use in the predatory sea star Pisaster ochraceus: the role of environmental stressors. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 539: 191–205. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps11475 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Nel, H.A. & Froneman, P.W. 2015. A quantitative analysis of microplastic pollution along the south-eastern coastline of South Africa. Marine Pollution Bulletin. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.09.043 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Qhaji, Y., Vuuren, B.J. van, Papadopoulos, I., McQuaid, C.D. & Teske, P.R. 2015. A comparison of genetic structure in two low-dispersal crabs from the Wild Coast, South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 37(3): 345–351. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2015.1077474 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Soler, G.A., Edgar, G.J., Thomson, R.J., Kininmonth, S., Campbell, S.J., Dawson, T.P., Barrett, N.S., Bernard, A.T.F., Galván, D.E., Willis, T.J., Alexander, T.J. & Stuart-Smith, R.D. 2015. Reef Fishes at All Trophic Levels Respond Positively to Effective Marine Protected Areas. PLoS ONE, 10: e0140270. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140270 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY & SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY: McQuaid, C.D., Porri, F., Nicastro, K.R. & Zardi, G.I. 2015. Simple, scale-? dependent patterns emerge from very complex effects? an example from the intertidal mussels mytilus galloprovincialis and perna perna, in: Oceanography and Marine Biology, Oceanography and Marine Biology - An Annual Review. CRC Press, pp. 127–156. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b18733-5 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY & SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY: Dalu, T., Weyl, O.L.F., Froneman, P.W. & Wasserman, R.J. 2015. Trophic interactions in an austral temperate ephemeral pond inferred using stable isotope analysis. Hydrobiologia, 1–14. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-015-2533-5 [Accessed 08 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Strümpher, W.P., Villet, M.H., Sole, C.L. & Scholtz, C.H. 2015. Overview and revision of the extant genera and subgenera of Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Insect Systematics & Evolution. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1876312X-46052133 [Accessed 09 December 2015].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Zimba, K., Hill, M.P., Moore, S.D. & Heshula, U. 2015. Agathis bishopi (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) as a Potential Tool for Detecting Oranges Infested with Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Journal of Insect Behavior, 28(5): 618–633. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10905-015-9526-0 [Accessed 09 December 2015].