Science & Pharmacy Research Output: November 2016

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ALBANY MUSEUM: Gess, S.K. & Roosenchoon, P.A. 2016. A preliminary survey of flower visiting by aculeate wasps and bees in the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, UAE. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 52: 81–141. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.52.10034 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ANTHROPOLOGY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Diedrich, A. & Aswani, S. 2016. Exploring the potential impacts of tourism development on social and ecological change in the Solomon Islands. Ambio, 45(7): 808–818. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-016-0781-x [Available 07 December 2016].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Jiwaji, M., Short, J.R., & Dorrington, R.A. 2016. Expanding the host range of small insect RNA viruses: Providence virus (Carmotetraviridae) infects and replicates in a human tissue culture cell line. Journal of General Virology, 97: 2763–2768. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.000578 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Moses, V., Hatherley, R. & Tastan Bishop, Ö. 2016. Bioinformatic characterization of type-specific sequence and structural features in auxiliary activity family 9 proteins. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 9: 239. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13068-016-0655-2 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

BOTANY: Magee, A.R. & Clark, V.R. 2017. Mzansi’s mountain hemlocks: The identities of Hilliard and Burtt’s Conium species 3 and 4 (Apiaceae) and a revised key for the genus in sub-Saharan Africa. South African Journal of Botany, 108: 243–247. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2016.11.006 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Achadu, O.J. & Nyokong, T. 2016. Application of graphene quantum dots decorated with TEMPO-derivatized zinc phthalocyanine as novel nanoprobes: probing the sensitive detection of ascorbic acid. New Journal of Chemistry, 40: 8727–8736. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6NJ01796G [Accessed 07 November 2016].

CHEMISTRY & BIOCHEMISTRY AND MICROBIOLOGY: Adeyemi, C.M., Faridoon, Isaacs, M., Mnkandhla, D., Hoppe, H.C., Krause, R.W.M. & Kaye, P.T. 2016. Synthesis and antimalarial activity of N-benzylated (N-arylcarbamoyl)alkylphosphonic acid derivatives. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 24: 6131–6138. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2016.04.021 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Britton, J., Martynov, A.G., Oluwole, D.O., Gorbunova, Y.G., Tsivadze, A.Y. & Nyokong, T. 2016. Improvement of nonlinear optical properties of phthalocyanine bearing diethyleneglycole chains: Influence of symmetry lowering vs. heavy atom effect. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 20: 1296–1305. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1088424616501042 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Hulushe, S.T., Hosten, E.C. & Watkins, G.M. 2016. Di­methyl­ammonium 2,4,5-tri­carb­oxy­benzoate: an example of the deca­rbonylation of N,N-di­methyl­formamide in the presence of a metal and a benzene­polycarb­oxy­lic acid. Is zirconium(IV) the Tsotsi? Acta Cryst E, Acta Cryst Sect E, Acta Crystallogr E, Acta Crystallogr Sect E, Acta Crystallogr E Crystallographic Communications, Acta Crystallogr Sect E Crystallographic Communications, 72: 1521–1525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/S2056989016014948 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Ikram, M., Rehman, S., Khan, A., Baker, R.J., Hofer, T.S., Subhan, F., Qayum, M. & Faridoon Schulzke, C. 2016. Corrigendum to “Synthesis, characterization, antioxidant and selective xanthine oxidase inhibitory studies of transition metal complexes of novel amino acid bearing Schiff base ligand” [Inorg. Chim. Acta 428 (2015) 117–126]. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 453: 779. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2016.07.034 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Kubheka, G., Uddin, I., Amuhaya, E., Mack, J. & Nyokong, T. 2016. Synthesis and photophysicochemical properties of BODIPY dye functionalized gold nanorods for use in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 20: 1016–1024. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S108842461650070X [Accessed 07 December 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Li, M., Niu, Y., Zhu, W., Mack, J., Fomo, G., Nyokong, T. & Liang, X. 2016. A2B type copper(III)corroles containing zero-to-five fluorine atoms: Synthesis, electronic structure and facile modulation of electrocatalyzed hydrogen evolution. Dyes and Pigments, 137: 523–531. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2016.10.044 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Li, M., Zhang, Q., Xu, L., Zhu, W., Mack, J., May, A.K., Nyokong, T., Kobayashi, N. & Liang, X. 2016. Flexible Metal–Porphyrin Dimers (M=MnIIICl, CoII, NiII, CuII): Synthesis, Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, Spectroelectrochemistry, and Theoretical Calculations. ChemPlusChem, 81: 1-10. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201600475 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

CHEMISTRY: Oluwole, D.O. & Nyokong, T. 2017. Photophysicochemical behaviour of metallophthalocyanines when doped onto silica nanoparticles. Dyes and Pigments, 136: 262–272. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2016.08.053 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

CHEMISTRY & PHARMACY: Noundou, X.S., Rambanapasi, C. & Krause, R.W.M. 2016. 579 - Development and synthesis of a potential versatile theranostic nanocarrier for cancer. European Journal of Cancer, 24th Biennial Congress of the European Association for Cancer Research, 9–12 July 2016, Manchester, UK 61, Supplement 1, S127. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0959-8049(16)61450-8 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Ayre, D. & Bradshaw, K. 2016. Extended Feature-Fusion Guidelines to Improve Image-Based Multi-Modal Biometrics. Proceeding SAICSIT ’16 Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Article No. 7, 26-28 September 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2987491.2987512 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Brown, D. & Bradshaw, K. 2016. A multi-biometric feature-fusion framework for improved uni-modal and multi-modal human identification, in: 2016 IEEE Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST). Presented at the 2016 IEEE Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), pp. 1–6, 10-11 May 2016. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/THS.2016.7568927 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

COMPUTER SCIENCE: Tsietsi, M. 2016. A Case Study in the Use of the Five Step Peer Evaluation Strategy to Improve a First Year Computer Literacy Course: An Exercise in Reflective Evaluation Practice, in: Gruner, S. (Ed.), ICT Education, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 642. Springer International Publishing, pp. 171–178. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47680-3_16 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Adam, Y.O. & Shackleton, C.M. 2016. Distribution and use of cash income from basket and mat crafting: implications for rural livelihoods in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 25: 199–211. Available; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14728028.2016.1186576 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Ncube, K., Shackleton, C.M., Swallow, B.M. & Dassanayake, W. 2016. Impacts of HIV / AIDS on food consumption and wild food use in rural South Africa. Food Security, 8: 1135–1151. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-016-0624-4 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Sachikonye, M.T., Dalu, T. & Gunter, A. 2016. Sustainable livelihood principles and urban greening in informal settlements in practice: A case of Zandspruit informal settlement, South Africa. Development Southern Africa, 33(4): 518–531. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2016.1179101 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

GEOGRAPHY: Baade, J., Glotzbach, C., Rowntree, K., Reinwarth, B., Paape, A., Miller, J. & Le Roux, J. 2016. Contemporary and long-term erosion and sediment yield in South Africa. Implications for and benefits from palaeo-ecological sedimentary records. Quaternary International, The African Quaternary: environments, ecology and humans Inaugural AFQUA conference, 404(Part B): 195–196. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.162 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

GEOGRAPHY: Glotzbach, C., Paape, A., Baade, J., Reinwarth, B., Rowntree, K. & Miller, J. 2016. Cenozoic landscape evolution of the Kruger National Park as derived from cosmogenic nuclide analyses. Terra Nova, 28(5): 316–322. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ter.12223 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

GEOLOGY: Costin, G., Fairey, B., Tsikos, H. & Gucsik, A. 2016. Tokyoite, As-rich tokyoite, and Noélbensonite: New occurrences from the Postmasburg Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Canadian Mineralogist, 53(6) 981–990. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3749/canmin.1500063 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Kaiser, H., Erasmus, B. & Naylor, M. 2016. Behavioural responses of farmed South African abalone Haliotis midae L. to disturbances caused by husbandry procedures. Aquaculture International, 1–9. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10499-016-0010-4 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Maggs, J.Q. & Cowley, P.D. 2016. Nine decades of fish movement research in southern Africa: a synthesis of research and findings from 1928 to 2014. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 26(3): 287–302. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11160-016-9425-2 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Power, S.D. & Jones, C.L.W. 2016. Anaerobically digested brewery effluent as a medium for hydroponic crop production – The influence of algal ponds and pH. Journal of Cleaner Production, 139: 167–174. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.07.189 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE & SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY: Lipiński, M.R., Vyver, J. van der, Shaw, P. & Sauer, W.H.H. 2016. Life cycle of chokka-squid Loligo reynaudii in South African waters. African Journal of Marine Science, 0: 1–5. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2016.1230074 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE & SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY: Olds, A.A., James, N.C., Smith, M.K.S. & Weyl, O.L.F. 2016. Fish communities of the Wilderness Lakes System in the southern Cape, South Africa: original research. Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 58(1): 1–10. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v58i1.1364 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH: Pienaar, G.W. & Hughes, D.A. 2016. Linking Hydrological Uncertainty with Equitable Allocation for Water Resources Decision-Making. Water Resources Management, 1–14. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11269-016-1523-3 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

PHARMACY: Agatonovic-Kustrin, S., Lebete, M., Brown, M.E., Morton, D.W. & Glass, B.D. 2016. Chemical characterization of the photodegradation products of midazolam complexes with randomly methylated-β-cyclodextrin by HPLC and LC-MS/MS. Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society, 81: 1037–1053. Available: http://www.shd-pub.org.rs/index.php/JSCS/article/view/1289 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Kalita, J.M. & Chithambo, M.L. 2017. Thermoluminescence of α-Al2O3:C,Mg: Kinetic analysis of the main glow peak. Journal of Luminescence, 182: 177–182. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2016.10.031 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Leistedt, B., Peiris, H.V. Elsner, F. et al. 2016. Mapping and Simulating Systematics due to Spatially Varying Observing Conditions in DES Science Verification Data. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 226(2): 24. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/226/2/24 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Soares-Santos, M., Kessler, R., Berger, E., et al., 2016. A Dark Energy Camera Search for an Optical Counterpart to the First Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 823: L33. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/823/2/L33 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS: Zimba, G.L., Sharpey-Schafer, J.F., Jones, P., Bvumbi, S.P., Masiteng, L.P., Majola, S.N.T., Dinoko, T.S., Lawrie, E.A., Lawrie, J.J., Negi, D., Papka, P., Roux, D., Shirinda, O., Easton, J.E. & Khumalo, N.A. 2016. Octupole correlations in N=88¹⁵⁴Dy: Octupole vibration versus stable deformation. Physical Review C, 94: 054303. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.94.054303 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

PSYCHOLOGY & STATISTICS, Pienaar, I., Shuttleworth-Edwards, A.B., Klopper, C.C. & Radloff, S. 2016. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Fourth Edition preliminary normative guidelines for educationally disadvantaged Xhosa-speaking individuals. South African Journal of Psychology, 0081246316654805: 1-12. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0081246316654805 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ELECTRON MICROSCOPE UNIT: Gon, O. & Pinchuck, S.C. 2016. Enigmatic tissue in the orobranchial chamber of cardinalfishes of the genus Siphamia (Perciformes, Apogonidae). African Zoology, 51(3): 127–133. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC196540 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ICHTHYOLOGY AND FISHERIES SCIENCE: Taylor, G.C., Peel, R.A., Hay, C.J. & Weyl, O.L.F. 2016. Validation of the periodicity of growth zone formation in the otoliths of four fish species from the Upper Zambezi ecoregion, southern Africa. African Zoology, 51(3): 153–159. Available: http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC196537 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY & ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Weyl, O.L.F., Barrow, S., Bellingan, T., Dalu, T., Ellender, B.R., Esler, K., Impson, D., Gouws, J., Jordaan, M., Villet, M.H., Wasserman, R. & Woodford, D.J. 2016. Monitoring of invertebrate and fish recovery following river rehabilitation using rotenone in the Rondegat River (No. 2261/1/16). Water Research Commission. Available: http://tinyurl.com/h3oku27.

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY & BOTANY: Sutton, G.F., Compton, S.G. & Coetzee, J.A. 2016. Naturally occurring phytopathogens enhance biological control of water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) by Megamelus scutellaris (Hemiptera: Delphacidae), even in eutrophic water. Biological Control, 103: 261–268. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2016.10.003 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Kotzé, Z., Villet, M.H. & Weldon, C.W. 2016. Heat accumulation and development rate of massed maggots of the sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Journal of Insect Physiology, 9: 98–104. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2016.09.009 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Monaco, C.J., Wethey, D.S. & Helmuth, B. 2016. Thermal sensitivity and the role of behavior in driving an intertidal predator–prey interaction. Ecological Monographs, 86(4): 429–447. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1230 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Muskett, P.C., Hill, J.M. & Weyl, P.S.R. 2016. Macroinvertebrate communities associated with duckweed (Lemnaceae) in two Eastern Cape rivers, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 0: 1–8. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2016.1241173 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Puccinelli, E., McQuaid, C. & Noyon, M. 2016. Absence of an effect of freshwater input on the stable isotope and fatty acid signatures of intertidal filter-feeders. African Journal of Marine Science, 0: 1–12. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2016.1227277 [Accessed 07 December 2016].

ZOOLOGY AND ENTOMOLOGY: Tagliarolo, M., Montalto, V., Sar, G., Lathlean, J.A. & McQuaid, C.D. 2016. Low temperature trumps high food availability to determine the distribution of intertidal mussels Perna perna in South Africa. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 558: 51–63. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps11876 [Accessed 07 December 2016].