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Select the first letter of the journal title from the alphabetical list.

 
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Govender I, Grayson DJ: 2008. Pre-service and in-service teachers’ experiences of learning to program in an object-oriented language. Computers & Education, 51 (2), pp 874-885.

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Scheffler TB, Leao AJ: 2008. Fabrication of polymer film heat transfer elements for energy efficient multi-effect distillation. Desalination, 222 (1-3), pp 707-721.

Derry TE, van der Berg NG, Makau NW: 2008. Diamond surfaces polished both mechanically and manually; an atomic force micorscopy (AFM) study. Diamond and Related Materials, 17 (2), pp 127-136.

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Davis ALV, Brink DJ, Scholtz CH, Prinsloo LC, Deschodt C: 2008. Functional implications of temperature-correlated colour polymorphism in an iridescent, scarabaeine dung beetle. Ecological Entomology, 33, pp 771-779.

Plastino AR, Daffertshofer A: 2008. Classical typicality of the canonical distribution. EPL - (formerly Europhysics Letters), 84 (3), pp 30006-p1-5, Full Text

Borras A, Zander C, Plastino AR, Casas M, Plastino A: 2008. Entanglement and the quantum brachistochrone problem. EPL - (formerly Europhysics Letters), 81 (3), pp 30007p1-5, Full Text

Herrera D, Valencia AM, Pennini F, Curilef S: 2008. A charged particle in a magnetic field: A review of two formalisms of coherent states and the Husimi function. European Journal of Physics, 29 (3), pp 439-449.

Berger WA, Miller HG, Waxman D: 2008. Threshold bound states. European Physical Journal A, 37, pp 357-360.

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Moji NC, Hattingh A: 2008. A relevant physics curriculum: Tapping indigenous African knowledge systems. Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IAJIKS), 7 (2), pp 223-236.

Borras A, Casas M, Plastino AR, Plastino AL: 2008. Some entanglement features of highly entangled multiqubit states. International Journal of Quantum Information (IJQI), 6 (1), pp 605-611.

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Barnas J, Gmitra M, Misiorny M, Dugaev V, Kunert HW: 2008. Current-induced magnetic switching and dynamics in spin valves. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 354 (35-39), pp 4181-4185.

Andrew RC, Miller HG: 2008. A comment on the presence of spurious states in finite basis approximations. Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical, 41 (15), pp 158001-158002.

Prinsloo LC, Barnard W, Meiklejohn KI, Hall K: 2008. The first Raman spectroscopic study of San rock art in the Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 39, pp 646-654.

Prinsloo LC, Colomban P: 2008. A Raman spectroscopic study of the Mapungubwe oblates: glass trade beads excavated at an Iron Age archaeological site in South Africa. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 39 (1), pp 79-90.

Colomban P, Dinh HM, Riand J, Prinsloo LC, Mauchamp B: 2008. Nanomechanics of single silkworm and spider fibres: a Raman and micro-mechanical in situ study of the conformation change with stress. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 39 (12), pp 1749-1764.

Von Wenckstern H, Biehne G, Lorenz M, Grundmann M, Auret FD, Meyer WE, Janse van Rensburg PJ, Hayes M, Nel JM: 2008. Dependence of trap concentrations in ZnO Thin films on annealing conditions. Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 53 (3), pp 8361-2863.

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Malherbe JB, Friedland E, van der Berg NG: 2008. Ion beam analysis of materials in the PBMR reactor. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section B-Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 266 (8), pp 1373-1377.

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Borras A, Plastino AR, Casas M, Plastino AL: 2008. Quantum brachistochrone evolution of systems of two identical particles: The role of entanglement. Physical Review A, 78 (5), pp 052104-1.

Conroy JM, Miller HG: 2008. Color superconductivity and Tsallis statistics. Physical Review D, 78 (5), pp 054010-1.

Auret FD, Coelho SMM, Hayes M, Meyer WE, Nel JM: 2008. Electrical characterization of defects introduced in Ge during electron beam deposition of different metals. Physica Status Solidi A-Applications And Materials Science, 205 (1), pp 159-161, Full Text

Coelho SMM, Auret FD, Janse van Rensburg PJ, Nyamhere C, Nel JM, Hayes M: 2008. IV and CV measurements of Schottky diodes deposited on Ge by electron beam and sputter deposition. Physica status solidi C, 5 (2), pp 626-629.

Nyamhere C, Das M, Auret FD, Chawanda A: 2008. A study of electron induced defects in n-type germanium by deep level transient spectroscopy (DLTS). Physica status solidi C, 5 (2), pp 623-625.

Odendaal V, Botha JR, Auret FD: 2008. On the processing of InAs and InSb photodiode applications. Physica Status Solidi C, 5 (2), pp 580-582.

Hayes M, Schroeter A, Wendler E, Wesch W, Auret FD, Nel JM: 2008. Damage formation in Ge during Ar+ implatation oat 15 K. Physica Status Solidi C, 5 (2), pp 583-586.

Kassier GH, Hayes M, Auret FD, Diale M, Svensson B G: 2008. Hall effect studies of donors and acceptors in different types of bulk ZnO modified by annealing and hydrogen implantation. Physica Status Solidi C, 5 (2), pp 569-572.

Nel JM, Griffiths T, Van Schalkwyk L, Auret FD, Hayes M, van der Berg NG: 2008. The effect of etching on Ge(111) surfaces and Pd Schottky contacts. Physica Status Solidi C, 5` (2), pp 587-590.

Curilef S, Plastino AR, Wedemann RS, Daffertshofer A: 2008. Landauer’s principle and non-equilibrium statistical ensembles. Physics Letters A, 372 (14), pp 2341-2345.

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Jesser WA: 2008. The role of frictional stress on the generation of misfit dislocations. South African Journal of Science, 104 (9) / Sep/Oct, pp 379-382, Full Text

Brink DJ, van der Berg NG, Prinsloo LC: 2008. The role of interface effects on the reflection of circularly polarised light from the thin-film structure of scarabus beetles. Surface and Interface Analysis, 40 (3-4), pp 769-771.

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Kunert HW, Machatine AGJ, Malherbe JB, Barnas J, Hoffmann A, Wagner MR: 2008. Elementary excitations in Si, Ge, and diamond time reversal affected. Thin Solid Films, 517 (1), pp 372-375, Full Text

Kunert HW, Machatine AGJ, Malherbe JB, Barnas J, Hoffmann A, Wagner MR: 2008. Infrared absorption, multiphonon processes and time reversal effect on Si and Ge band structure. Thin Solid Films, 517 (1), pp 134-136, Full Text

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Boeyens JCA: 2008. The Periodic Electronegativity Table. Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung Section B-A Journal of Chemical Sciences, 63b (2), pp 199-209.

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