• Information security education. Information security in action 

  Drevin, Lynette; Von Solms, Suné; Theocharidou, Marianthi (Springer, 2020)

  This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, WISE 13, held in Maribor, Slovenia, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to ...
• Conspecific density and environmental complexity impact behaviour of turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) 

  Thoré, Eli S.J.; Brendonck, Luc; Pinceel, Tom (Wiley, 2020)

  Fish models are essential for research in many biological and medical disciplines. With a typical lifespan of only 6 months, the Turquoise killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) was recently established as a time‐ and ...
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  Evaluating environmental impact assessment report quality in South African national parks 

  Sandham, Luke A.; Huysamen, Carla; Retief, Francois P.; Morrison-Saunders, Angus; Bond, Alan J.; Pope, Jenny; Alberts, Reece C. (AOSIS, 2020)

  This research evaluates Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report quality for a selected sample of development projects in South African national parks. It applies an adapted version of an international EIA report quality ...
• Towards a deeper understanding of historic cosmic ray modulation during solar cycle 20 

  Engelbrecht, N. Eugene; Wolmarans, C.P. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Given recent successes in modelling the transport of cosmic rays (CRs) in the heliosphere from first principles, taking into account the behaviour of heliospheric turbulence quantities and their influence on the transport ...
• The ablation of gas clouds by blazar jets 

  Heil, Jonathan; Zacharias, Michael (EDP Sciences, 2020)

  Context. Flaring activity in blazars can last for vastly different timescales, and it may be the result of density enhancements in the jet flow that result from the intrusion of an interstellar cloud into the jet. Aims. ...
• Interspecies differences in cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism of neonicotinoids among cats, dogs, rats, and humans 

  Khidkhan, Kraisiri; Ikenaka, Yoshinori; Ichise, Takahiro; Nakayama, Shouta M.M.; Mizukawa, Hazuki (Elsevier, 2020)

  Neonicotinoid insecticides are used for agricultural and non-agricultural purposes worldwide. Pets are directly exposed to neonicotinoids in veterinary products and through environmental contamination. Cytochrome P450 (CYP) ...
• Macrobenthic communities in selected river-dominated estuaries in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: effects of contrasting environmental variables and seasonal flow changes 

  Vezi, Madonna S.; Wepener, Victor; Downs, Colleen T.; O"Brien, Gordon (CERF, 2020)

  Globally, estuaries are ecologically important, but many are threatened by anthropogenic activities. Macrozoobenthos organisms are suitable ecological indicators in estuaries because they can detect the effects of stress ...
• Exploring the acceleration mechanisms for particle injection and power-law formation during transrelativistic magnetic reconnection 

  Kilian, Patrick; Li, Xiaocan; Guo, Fan; Li, Hui (IOP Publishing, 2020)

  Magnetic reconnection in the relativistic and transrelativistic regimes is able to accelerate particles to hard power-law energy spectra f ∝ γ −p (approaching p = 1). The underlying acceleration mechanism that determines ...
• A comprehensive power spectral density analysis of astronomical time series. I. The Fermi-LAT gamma-ray light curves of selected blazars 

  Tarnopolski, Mariusz; Zywucka, Natalia; Marchenko, Volodymyr; Pascual-Granacio, Javier (IOP Publishing, 2020)

  We present the results of the Fermi-Large Area Telescope 10 yr long light curve (LC) modeling of selected blazars: six flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and five BL Lacertae (BL Lacs), examined in 7, 10, and 14 day ...
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  gSeaGen: the KM3NeT GENIE-based code for neutrino telescopes 

  Aiello, S.; Böttcher, M.; Kreter, M.; Rabyang, O.; Zywucka, N. (Elsevier, 2020)

  The gSeaGen code is a GENIE-based application developed to efficiently generate high statistics samples of events, induced by neutrino interactions, detectable in a neutrino telescope. The gSeaGen code is able to generate ...
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  Identification of solar periodicities in southern African baobab δ13C record 

  Kotzé, Pieter B. (ASSAf, 2020)

  Spectral analysis using wavelet, Lomb–Scargle and maximum entropy techniques of the proxy rainfall record of northeastern South Africa based on annual carbon isotope (δ13C) data obtained from baobab trees for the period ...
• Polystoma luohetong n. sp. (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) from Rana chaochiaoensis Liu (Amphibia: Ranidae) in China 

  Fan, Lixian; Netherlands, Edward C.; Du Preez, Louis H.; Xu, Weijiang; Jia, Ting (Springer, 2020)

  Polystoma chaochiaoensis from the urinary bladder of the chaochiao frog Rana chaochiaoensis Liu was briefly described in a symposium abstract and presented at the Third Symposium on Parasitology of China in 1990. Types ...
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  X-ray and gamma-ray variability of NGC 1275 

  Chitnis, Varsha; Chandra, Sunil; Shukla, Amit; Singh, K.P.; Jayashree, Roy (MDPI, 2020)

  Gamma-ray emission from the bright radio source 3C 84, associated with the Perseus cluster, is ascribed to the radio galaxy NGC 1275 residing at the centre of the cluster. Study of the correlated X-ray/gamma-ray emission ...
• Sol-gel synthesis of Ce0.8Sr0.2Co1-(x+y)NixFeyO3-δ (x = 0.1, 0.2, and y = 0.2, 0.5, 0.7)—a nanocomposite-type electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media 

  Njoku, C.B.; Kriek, R.J. (Springer, 2020)

  We report on nanocomposite materials that are both active and stable for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline media. Ce0.8Sr0.2Co0.6Ni0.2Fe0.2O3-δ (CSCNF1), Ce0.8Sr0.2Co0.3Ni0.2Fe0.5O3-δ (CSCNF2), and ...
• Agrochemicals in freshwater systems and their potential as endocrine disrupting chemicals: a South African context 

  Horak, Ilzé; Horn, Suranie; Pieters, Rialet (Elsevier, 2021)

  South Africa is the largest agrochemical user in sub-Saharan Africa, with over 3000 registered pesticide products. Although they reduce crop losses, these chemicals reach non-target aquatic environments via leaching, spray ...
• Morphological and molecular characterisation of Aporcelaimellus nigeriensis sp. n. (Dorylaimida: Aporcelaimidae), a remarkable dorylaim from Nigeria 

  Rashidifard, Milan; Bello, Tesleem T.; Fourie, Hendrika; Coyne, Danny L.; Peña-Santiago, Reyes (Brill, 2020)

  A new species of Aporcelaimellus, collected in a watermelon field in Nigeria, is described, including its morphological and molecular (D2-D3 28S-rDNA, 18r-DNA) characterisation. Aporcelaimellus nigeriensis sp. n. is ...
• Description of Calcaridorylaimus heynsi n. sp. (Nematoda: Dorylaimidae) from Potchefstroom, South Africa 

  Swart, Antoinette; Fourie, Hendrika; Tiedt, Louwrens R.; Rashidifard, Milad (Brill, 2020)

  Calcaridorylaimus heynsi n. sp. is the second species of the genus to be described by both morphological and molecular techniques. Morphologically, it can be distinguished from all known species of Calcaridorylaimus by a ...
• Sex differences in fatigability following exercise normalised to the power-duration relationship 

  Ansdell, Paul; Howatson, Glyn; Škarabot, Jakob; Atkinson, Elliott; Corden, Sarah (Wiley, 2020)

  Due to morphological differences, females demonstrate greater fatigue resistance of locomotor muscle during single‐limb and whole‐body exercise modalities. Whilst females sustain a greater relative intensity of single‐limb, ...
• Prolonging the duration of cooling does not enhance recovery following a marathon 

  Kwiecien, Susan A.; Howatson, Glyn; McHugh, Malachy P.; Hicks, Kirsty M.; Keane, Karen M. (Wiley, 2020)

  Runners commonly utilize cryotherapy as part of their recovery strategy. Cryotherapy has been ineffective in mitigating signs and symptoms of muscle damage following marathon running and is limited by its duration of ...
• Developing a contamination susceptibility index for the Goreangab Dam in Namibia 

  Moisès, Dèolfa Jose; Kgabi, Nnenesi; Lewis, Earl (Elsevier, 2020)

  The convenience and quality of life provided by dams is highly dependent on the quality of the retained water. Human intervention plays an important role in defining the quality of the retained water as expanding human ...

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