Science & Pharmacy Research Output: October 2016

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BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY & ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Chartier FitzGerald, V.C., Hill, M.P., Moore, S.D. & Dames, J.F. 2016. Screening of entomopathogenic fungi against citrus mealybug, Plannococcus citri (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). African Entomology, 24(2): 343–351. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.024.0343 [Accessed 10 November 2016].

BOTANY: Situngu, S. & Barker, N.P. 2017. Position, position, position: Mites occupying leaf domatia are not uniformly distributed in the tree canopy. South African Journal of Botany, 108: 23–28. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2016.09.012 [Accessed 10 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Achadu, O.J., Managa, M. & Nyokong, T. 2017. Fluorescence behaviour of supramolecular hybrids containing graphene quantum dots and pyrene-derivatized phthalocyanines and porphyrins. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 333: 174–185. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2016.10.029 [Accessed 10 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Adegoke, O., Nyokong, T. & Forbes, P.B.C. 2016. Photophysical properties of a series of alloyed and non-alloyed water-soluble l-cysteine-capped core quantum dots. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2016.10.276 [Accessed 10 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY & BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTRE, Managa, M., Britton, J., Prinsloo, E. & Nyokong, T. 2016. Effects of pluronic silica nanoparticles on the photophysical and photodynamic therapy behavior of triphenyl-p-phenoxy benzoic acid metalloporphyrins. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 69(23): 3491–3506. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2016.1236372 [Accessed 10 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY & BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTRE: Oluwole, D.O., Prinsloo, E. & Nyokong, T. 2017. Photophysical behavior and photodynamic therapy activity of conjugates of zinc monocarboxyphenoxy phthalocyanine with human serum albumin and chitosan. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 173: 292–300. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2016.09.032 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY & BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTRE: Oluwole, D.O., Prinsloo, E. & Nyokong, T. 2016. Photophysicochemical properties of nanoconjugates of zinc(II) 2(3)-mono-2-(4-oxy)phenoxy)acetic acid phthalocyanine with cysteamine capped silver and silver–gold nanoparticles. Polyhedron, 119: 434–444. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2016.09.034 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Fanchiotti, B.G., Machado, M.P.Z., de Paula, L.C., Durmuş, M., Nyokong, T., da Silva Gonçalves, A. & da Silva, A.R. 2016. The photobleaching of the free and encapsulated metallic phthalocyanine and its effect on the photooxidation of simple molecules. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 165: 10–23. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2016.10.007 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Ikeuchi, T., Mack, J., Nyokong, T., Kobayashi, N. & Kimura, M. 2016. Aggregation Control of Robust Water-Soluble Zinc(II) Phthalocyanine-Based Photosensitizers. Langmuir. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03552 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Mafukidze, D.M., Mashazi, P. & Nyokong, T. 2016. Synthesis and singlet oxygen production by a phthalocyanine when embedded in asymmetric polymer membranes. Polymer, Structure and Dynamics of Polymers studied by X-ray, Neutron and Muon Techniques, 105: 203–213. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2016.10.032 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY: McIteka, L.P., Lobb, K.A. & Kaye, P.T. 2016. Synthesis of camphor-derived chiral auxiliaries and their application in asymmetric Morita-Baylis-Hillman reactions. Arkivoc, 2016(5): 151–163. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ark.5550190.p009.737  [Accessed 11 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Okujima, T., Mack, J., Nakamura, J., Kubheka, G., Nyokong, T., Zhu, H., Komobuchi, N., Ono, N., Yamada, H., Uno, H. & Kobayashi, N. 2016. Synthesis, Characterization, and Electronic Structures of Porphyrins Fused with Polycyclic Aromatic Ring Systems. Chemistry - A European Journal, 22(41): 14730–14738. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201602213 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Uddin, I. & Ahmad, A. 2016. Bioinspired eco-friendly synthesis of ZrO2 nanoparticles. Journal of Materials and Environmental Science, 7(9): 3068–3075. Available: http://www.jmaterenvironsci.com/Document/vol7/vol7_N9/321-JMES-2035-Uddin.pdf [Accessed 11 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Watkins, Z., Uddin, I., Britton, J. & Nyokong, T. 2017. Characterization of conjugates of NaYF4:Yb,Er,Gd upconversion nanoparticle with aluminium phthalocyanines. Journal of Molecular Structure, 1130: 128–137. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2016.10.011 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Zhou, J., Gai, L., Mack, J., Zhou, Z., Qiu, H., Chan, K.S. & Shen, Z. 2016. Synthesis and photophysical properties of orthogonal rhodium(III)–carbon bonded porphyrin–aza-BODIPY conjugates. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 4: 8422–8428. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6TC03130G [Accessed 11 November 2016].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Darlow, L.N. & Connan, J. & Singh, A. 2016. Performance analysis of a Hybrid fingerprint extracted from optical coherence tomography fingertip scans, in: 2016 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB). Presented at the 2016 International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), pp. 1–8. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICB.2016.7550045 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Machanick, P. 2016. Teaching Operating Systems: Just Enough Abstraction, in: Gruner, S. (Ed.), ICT Education, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, pp. 104–111. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47680-3_10 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

GEOGRAPHY: Kotzé, C. & Meiklejohn, I. 2016. Temporal variability of ground thermal regimes on the northern buttress of the Vesleskarvet nunatak, western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 1–9. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095410201600047X [Accessed 11 November 2016].

GEOLOGY: McDonald, I., Harmer, R.E. (Jock), Holwell, D.A., Hughes, H.S.R. & Boyce, A.J. 2017. Cu-Ni-PGE mineralisation at the Aurora Project and potential for a new PGE province in the Northern Bushveld Main Zone. Ore Geology Reviews, 80: 1135–1159. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.09.016 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

HUMAN KINETICS AND ERGONOMICS: Egwuonwu, A.V., Mbaoma, C.P. & Abdullahi, A. 2016. Prevalence and associated risk factors of work-related muscoskeletal disorders among road construction workers in a Nigerian community. Ergonomics SA: Journal of the Ergonomics Society of South Africa, 28(1): 25–37. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC195999 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ICHYTHOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Jereb, P., Cannas, R., Maiorano, P., Bello, G., Garibaldi, F., Mereu, M., Ancona, F.G., Ammendolia, G., Battaglia, P., Duysak, Ö., Hoving, H.J.T., Lefkaditou, E., Lipinski, M.R., Melis, R., Peristeraki, P.N., Ragonese, S., Romeo, T., Salman, A., Santos, M.B., Villari, A. & Cuccu, D. 2016. Erratum to: The deep-water squid Octopoteuthis sicula Rüppell, 1844(Cephalopoda: Octopoteuthidae) as the single species of the genus occurring in the Mediterranean Sea (Mar Biol, (2016), 163: 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2965-0). Marine Biology, 163: 229. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2996-6 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

MATHEMATICS (PURE AND APPLIED): Biggs, R. & Remsing, C.C. 2016. Quadratic Hamilton–Poisson Systems in Three Dimensions: Equivalence, Stability, and Integration. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, 1–59. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10440-016-0074-1 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

PHARMACY: Hayward-Zeelie, C. 2016. The Management of Hyperglycaemia and Dyslipidaemia in an In-Patient Setting: forum. SA Pharmaceutical Journal, 83(7): 46–47. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC195820 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Brustein, R. & Medved, A.J.M. 2016. Teleporting entanglement during black hole evaporation. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016: 28. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2016)028 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Geyer, M. & Karastergiou, A. 2016. The frequency dependence of scattering imprints on pulsar observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 462(3): 2587–2602. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1724 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Herzog, A., Norris, R.P., Middelberg, E., Seymour, N., Spitler, L.R., Emonts, B.H.C., Franzen, T.M.O., Hunstead, R., Intema, H.T., Marvil, J., Parker, Q.A., Sirothia, S.K., Hurley-Walker, N., Bell, M., Bernardi, G., Bowman, J.D., Briggs, F., Cappallo, R.J., Callingham, J.R., Deshpande, A.A., Dwarakanath, K.S., For, B.-Q., Greenhill, L.J., Hancock, P., Hazelton, B.J., Hindson, L., Johnston-Hollitt, M., Kapińska, A.D., Kaplan, D.L., Lenc, E., Lonsdale, C.J., McKinley, B., McWhirter, S.R., Mitchell, D.A., Morales, M.F., Morgan, E., Morgan, J., Oberoi, D., Offringa, A., Ord, S.M., Prabu, T., Procopio, P., Shankar, N.U., Srivani, K.S., Staveley-Smith, L., Subrahmanyan, R., Tingay, S.J., Wayth, R.B., Webster, R.L., Williams, A., Williams, C.L., Wu, C., Zheng, Q., Bannister, K.W., Chippendale, A.P., Harvey-Smith, L., Heywood, I., Indermuehle, B., Popping, A., Sault, R.J. & Whiting, M.T. 2016. The radio spectral energy distribution of infrared-faint radio sources. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 593: A130. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527000 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Lenc, E., Gaensler, B.M., Sun, X.H., Sadler, E.M., Willis, A.G., Barry, N., Beardsley, A.P., Bell, M.E., G. Bernardi, Bowman, J.D., Briggs, F., Callingham, J.R., Cappallo, R.J., Carroll, P., Corey, B.E., Oliveira-Costa, A. de, Deshpande, A.A., Dillon, J.S., Dwarkanath, K.S., Emrich, D., Ewall-Wice, A., Feng, L., B.-Q. For, Goeke, R., Greenhill, L.J., Hancock, P., Hazelton, B.J., Hewitt, J.N., Hindson, L., Hurley-Walker, N., M. Johnston-Hollitt, Jacobs, D.C., Kapińska, A.D., Kaplan, D.L., Kasper, J.C., Kim, H.-S., Kratzenberg, E., J. Line, Loeb, A., Lonsdale, C.J., Lynch, M.J., McKinley, B., McWhirter, S.R., Mitchell, D.A., Morales, M.F., E. Morgan, Morgan, J., Murphy, T., Neben, A.R., Oberoi, D., Offringa, A.R., Ord, S.M., Paul, S., Pindor, B., Pober, J.C., Prabu, T., Procopio, P., Riding, J., Rogers, A.E.E., Roshi, A., Shankar, N.U., Sethi, S.K., Srivani, K.S., Staveley-Smith, L., Subrahmanyan, R., Sullivan, I.S., Tegmark, M., Thyagarajan, N., Tingay, S.J., Trott, C., Waterson, M., Wayth, R.B., Webster, R.L., Whitney, A.R., Williams, A., Williams, C.L., C. Wu, Wyithe, J.S.B. & Zheng, Q. 2016. Low-frequency Observations of Linearly Polarized Structures in the Interstellar Medium near the South Galactic Pole. Astrophysical Journal, 830(1): 38. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/38 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Mungufeni, P., Habarulema, J.B. & Jurua, E. 2016. Modeling of ionospheric irregularities during geomagnetically disturbed conditions over African low-latitude region. Space Weather, 2016SW001446. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016SW001446 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Nsengiyumva, S., Topic, M., Pichon, L., Comrie, C.M. & Mtshali, C. 2016. Oxygen depth profiling by resonant backscattering and glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy of Ti-6Al-4V alloy oxidized by ion implantation and plasma based treatment. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 384: 50–60. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2016.08.008 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: The DES Collaboration, Park, Y., Krause, E., Dodelson, S., Jain, B., Amara, A., Becker, M.R., Bridle, S.L., Clampitt, J., Crocce, M., Fosalba, P., Gaztanaga, E., Honscheid, K., Rozo, E., Sobreira, F., Sánchez, C., Wechsler, R.H., Abbott, T., Abdalla, F.B., Allam, S., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D.L., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F.J., da Costa, L.N., DePoy, D.L., Desai, S., Dietrich, J.P., Doel, P., Eifler, T.F., Fausti Neto, A., Fernandez, E., Finley, D.A., Flaugher, B., Gerdes, D.W., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R.A., Gutierrez, G., James, D.J., Kent, S., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lima, M., Maia, M.A.G., Marshall, J.L., Melchior, P., Miller, C.J., Miquel, R., Nichol, R.C., Ogando, R., Plazas, A.A., Roe, N., Romer, A.K., Rykoff, E.S., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M.E.C., Tarle, G., Thaler, J., Vikram, V., Walker, A.R., Weller, J. & Zuntz, J. 2016. Joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering: Methodology and forecasts for Dark Energy Survey. Physical Review D, 94: 063533. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.063533 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Zimba, G.L., Bvumbi, S.P., Masiteng, L.P., Jones, P., Sharpey-Schafer, J.F., Lawrie, E., Majola, S.N.T., Dinoko, T.S., Lawrie, J.J., Roux, D., Papka, P., Easton, J.E., Negi, D., Shirinda, O. & Khumalo, N. 2015. First observation of E1 transitions from the octupole band to the excited 0⁺ ₂ pairing isomer band in the rare earth nucleus ¹⁵⁴Dy. Presented at the Proceedings of Science, 53rd International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio 2015; Bormio; Italy; 26 January 2015 through 30 January 2015.

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: OrtegaCisneros, K., Scharler, U.M. & Whitfield, A.K. 2016. Carbon and nitrogen system dynamics in three small South African estuaries, with particular emphasis on the influence of seasons, river flow and mouth state. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 557: 17–30. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps11870 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY & ALBANY MUSEUM: Tocco, C., Quinn, D.E.A., Midgley, J.M. & Villet, M.H. 2016. Optimising design and effort for environmental surveys using dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 1–13. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2016.48 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Brits, D., Brooks, M. & Villet, M.H. 2016. Diversity of bacteria isolated from the flies Musca domestica (Muscidae) andChrysomya megacephala (Calliphoridae) with emphasis on vectored pathogens. African Entomology, 24: 365–375. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.024.0365 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Coombes, C.A., Hill, M.P., Moore, S.D. & Dames, J.F. 2016. Entomopathogenic fungi as control agents of Thaumatotibia leucotreta in citrus orchards: field efficacy and persistence. BioControl, 1–11. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10526-016-9756-x [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Helmuth, B., Choi, F., Matzelle, A., Torossian, J.L., Morello, S.L., Mislan, K. a. S., Yamane, L., Strickland, D., Szathmary, P.L., Gilman, S.E., Tockstein, A., Hilbish, T.J., Burrows, M.T., Power, A.M., Gosling, E., Mieszkowska, N., Harley, C.D.G., Nishizaki, M., Carrington, E., Menge, B., Petes, L., Foley, M.M., Johnson, A., Poole, M., Noble, M.M., Richmond, E.L., Robart, M., Robinson, J., Sapp, J., Sones, J., Broitman, B.R., Denny, M.W., Mach, K.J., Miller, L.P., O’Donnell, M., Ross, P., Hofmann, G.E., Zippay, M., Blanchette, C., Macfarlan, J.A., Carpizo-Ituarte, E., Ruttenberg, B., Mejía, C.E.P., McQuaid, C.D., Lathlean, J., Monaco, C.J., Nicastro, K.R. & Zardi, G. 2016. Long-term, high frequency in situ measurements of intertidal mussel bed temperatures using biomimetic sensors. Scientific Data, 3: 160087. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.87 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Kong, Y., Wang, R., Yang, D.-R., Sreekar, R., Peng, Y.-Q. & Compton, S.G. 2016. Non-pollinator fig wasp impact on the reproductive success of an invasive fig tree: why so little? Biocontrol Science and Technology, 26(10): 1432–1443. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2016.1214862 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Lathlean, J.A. & McQuaid, C.D. 2016. Biogeographic Variability in the Value of Mussel Beds as Ecosystem Engineers on South African Rocky Shores. Ecosystems, 1–15. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-016-0041-8 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Mangan, R. & Baars, J.-R. 2016. Can leaf-mining flies generate damage with significant impact on the submerged weed Lagarosiphon major? BioControl, 1–11. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10526-016-9759-7 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Puccinelli, E., McQuaid, C.D. & Noyon, M. 2016. Spatio-Temporal Variation in Effects of Upwelling on the Fatty Acid Composition of Benthic Filter Feeders in the Southern Benguela Ecosystem: Not All Upwelling Is Equal. PLOS ONE, 11: e0161919. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161919 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Sanborn, A.F., Phillips, P.K. & Villet, M.H. 2016. Song Analysis of South African Pygmy Bladder Cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae: Tettigomyiini). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 109: 526–533. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saw024 [Accessed 11 November 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Zimba, K., Heshula, U., Moore, S.D. & Hill, M.P. 2016. Host searching and oviposition behaviour of Agathis bishopi (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a larval parasitoid of false codling moth, Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): a potential proxy indicator for fruit infestation. African Entomology, 24(2): 524–529. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.024.0524 [Accessed 11 November 2016].