Faculty of Natural Sciences: Recent submissions
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The redshift evolution of the baryonic Tully-Fisher relation in SIMBA
(Oxford university press, 2021)The baryonic Tully–Fisher relation (BTFR) is an important tool for constraining galaxy evolution models. As 21-cm HI emission studies have been largely restricted to low redshifts, the redshift evolution of the BTFR is ... -
Corrosion improvement of 304l stainless steel by zrsin and zrsi(N,o) mono-and double-layers prepared by reactive cathodic arc evaporation
(MDPI, 2021)Zr-based nitrides and oxynitrides were deposited by reactive cathodic arc evaporation in monolayer and double-layer structures with the aim of increasing the corrosion protection of 304L stainless steel (SS) in a biomedical ... -
Green-synthesized zinc oxide nanoparticles mitigate salt stress in sorghum bicolor
(MDPI, 2022)Salinity is an abiotic stress that is responsible for more than 50% of crop losses worldwide. Current strategies to overcome salinity in agriculture are limited to the use of genetically modified crops and chemicals ... -
High-precision half-life determination of 14O via direct β counting
(Springer, 2022)The half-life of the superallowed Fermi β+ emitter 14O was determined to high precision via a direct β counting experiment performed at the Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC) facility at TRIUMF. The result, T1/2( 14O) ... -
Depositional age and provenance of high-grade paragneisses from the Mérida Andes, Venezuela: Implications for the Ediacaran–Cambrian tectonic setting of northwestern Gondwana
(Elsevier, 2021)Isotopic, geochemical, and geochronological data are provided to constrain sedimentary sources and depositional ages of high-grade paragneisses of the Iglesias Complex in the Mérida Andes (Venezuela). U-Pb geochronology ... -
Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide
(Pensoft Publishers, 2021)During the 2019 First Descent: Seychelles Expedition, shallow and deep reef ecosystems of the Seychelles Outer Islands were studied by deploying a variety of underwater technologies to survey their benthic flora and fauna. ... -
Water use of selected cover crop species commonly grown in South African fruit orchards and their response to drought stress
(Elsevier, 2021)Cover crops are widely planted in orchards for a variety of reasons. These include suppressing soil erosion, nutrient cycling, phytosanitary purposes, general orchard aesthetics etc. However, there is need to balance these ... -
Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Polymorphism (rs1801133) and the Risk of Hypertension among African Populations: A Narrative Synthesis of Literature
(MDPI, 2022)In this review, we have gathered and analyzed the available genetic evidence on the association between the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene (MTHFR), rs1801133 and the risk of Hypertension (HTN) in African ... -
Simulations of primary beam effects on the cosmic bispectrum phase observed with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array
(Royal Astronomical Society, 2022)The 21 cm transition from neutral hydrogen promises to be the best observational probe of the epoch of reionization (EoR). The main difficulty in measuring the 21 cm signal is the presence of bright foregrounds that require ... -
Data Management Plans in the genomics research revolution of Africa: Challenges and Recommendations
(Elsevier, 2021)Drafting and writing a data management plan (DMP) is increasingly seen as a key part of the academic research process. A DMP is a document that describes how a researcher will collect, document, describe, share, and preserve ... -
Synthesis and reactivities of conducting hexathienylbenzene-co-poly(3-hexylthiophene) star-branched copolymer as donor material for organic photovoltaic cell
(Frontiers Media, 2022)The hexathienylbenzene-co-poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5diyl) (HTB-co-P3HT) conducting polymer was synthesized by oxidative co-polymerization of hexathienylbenzene (HTB) and 3-hexylthiophene using iron chloride (FeCl3) as an ... -
Microwave-assisted synthesis of schiff base metal–ligand complexes with copper and nickel centres for electrochemical in vitro sensing of nitric oxide in an aqueous solution
(MDPI, 2022)Nitric oxide (NO), the smallest signalling molecule known in the human body, keeps blood vessels dilated, controls blood pressure, and has numerous other health regulatory effects. The use of Schiff base complexes ... -
Practical galaxy morphology tools from deep supervised representation learning
(Oxford University Press, 2022)Astronomers have typically set out to solve supervised machine learning problems by creating their own representations from scratch. We show that deep learning models trained to answer every Galaxy Zoo DECaLS question ... -
MIGHTEE-Hi: The relation between the Hi gas in galaxies and the cosmic web
(Oxford University Press, 2022)We study the 3D axis of rotation (3D spin) of 77 Hi galaxies from the MIGHTEE-Hi Early Science observations, and its relation to the filaments of the cosmic web. For this Hi-selected sample, the alignment between the spin ... -
Estimating the electron energy and the strength of the electric field within sprites using ground-based optical data observed over South African storms
(Elsevier, 2021)We present a new simplified method to estimate the characteristic electron energy and electric field within a mesospheric transient luminous event using ground-based calibrated and filtered optical data. We assume ... -
Morpho-physiological, biochemical, and genetic responses to salinity in medicago truncatula
(MDPI, 2021)We used an integrated morpho-physiological, biochemical, and genetic approach to investigate the salt responses of four lines (TN1.11, TN6.18, JA17, and A10) of Medicago truncatula. Results showed that TN1.11 exhibited a ... -
Pks 1830-211: oh and hi at z = 0.89 and the first meerkat uhf spectrum
(EDP Sciences, 2021)The Large Survey Project (LSP) "MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey"(MALS) is a blind H I 21 cm and OH 18 cm absorption line survey in the L- and UHF-bands, primarily designed to better determine the occurrence of atomic and ... -
Measuring the HI mass function below the detection threshold
(Royal Astronomical Society, 2020)We present a Bayesian stacking technique to directly measure the H I mass function (HIMF) and its evolution with redshift using galaxies formally below the nominal detection threshold. We generate galaxy samples over several ... -
Functional landscape of SARS-CoV-2 cellular restriction
(Cell Press, 2021)A deficient interferon (IFN) response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has been implicated as a determinant of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). To identify the molecular ... -
Hi global scaling relations in the wise-whisp survey
(Oxford University Press, 2021)We present the global scaling relations between the neutral atomic hydrogen gas, the stellar disk and the star forming disk in a sample of 228 nearby galaxies that are both spatially and spectrally resolved in HI line ...