Benue State University

Governing what we don’t know: Uncertainty, source adjudication, and the accountability of national statistics offices in contested data environments

National statistics offices are increasingly asked to be more than producers of their own observations: data stewards, integrators of administrative, citizen-generated, satellite, and AI-derived data, and custodians of public trust. This paper takes up the resulting question of i...

Phytochemical-engineered silver nanoparticles: surface functionalization, polymeric interfaces, and biomedical applications

Plant-based phytochemicals that operate as reducing and coordinating agents also create sustainable (green) frameworks for the construction of silver nanostructures (AgNPs). This review covers the inorganic and coordination chemistry underlying phytochemical-mediated AgNPs format...

Fungal-derived chitosan for active food packaging: Comparison to animal-derived chitosan, challenges, and future prospects of Ganoderma lucidum-derived chitosan

Chitosan is one of the most extensively studied biopolymers for active food packaging because of its excellent film-forming, antimicrobial, antioxidant, and biodegradable properties. However, the broader application of conventional animal-derived chitosan, primarily obtained from...

Technological and analytical advancements in liquid biopsy for multiomic profiling of lymphomas and immunopathological conditions

This is a review of up to date technological and analytical innovations in liquid biopsy to lymphomas, and its role in multi-omics-based disease characterisation, enhanced diagnostic accuracy, minimal residual disease (MRD) detection and how it can be used to support personalised...

TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF ETHANOL EXTRACT OF HUNTERIA UMBELLATA SEEDS: ACUTE AND SUB-ACUTE ORAL TOXICITY, RENAL, HEPATIC AND HAEMATOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN WISTAR MICE.

This study evaluates the acute and sub-acute oral toxicity of ethanol extract from Hunteria umbellata seeds in mice, focusing on mortality rates, physical observations, biochemical, and haematological markers over 24 hours, 7 days, and 14 days of administration. Across all dosage...

High-Efficient Cs2AgBiBr6 Perovskite Solar Cells with Rare-Earth-Doped Absorber and Front Contact: A Numerical Modeling in SCAPS-1D Framework

This work proposes a simplified HTL-free PSC structure based on Cs2AgBiBr6 doped with praseodymium (Pr3+). By reducing interfacial layers, this design reduces defect-induced recombination and increases the resistance of the device under environmental stresses (such as temperature...