Spondias mombin (Linn), Nymphaea lotus (Linn) and Luffa cylindrica (Linn) (syn Luffa aegyptiaca Mill) are plants traditionally used as food ingredients and in the management of diseases, including cancer, in Nigeria. Despite the therapeutic potentials attributed to these plants, reports on their genotoxicity are scanty. In this study, the genotoxicity of the aqueous and hydro-methanol extract o...

Luffa cylindrica (LC), a lignocellulosic material coveted for its versatility, was investigated to immobilize crosslinked chitosan and remove Food red 17 (FR17) dye from aqueous solutions. LC/chitosan with epichlorohydrin (LC/CS/EPIC) glutaraldehyde (LC/CS/GLUT). LC/CS/GLUT LC/CS/EPIC presented an adequate morphology mass transfer, relevant functional groups adsorption. Furthermore, FR17 adsorp...

Produced water (PW) during oil and gas production operations contains various hazardous substances including heavy metals (HM) with adverse impact on the environment. Disposal of PW interferes environmental sustainability, making treatment obligatory prior to discharge into Among previously available treatments PW, environmentally sustainable methods using low-pore space bio-adsorbents require ...

In this paper, a higher order differential attack on the hash function Luffa v1 is discussed. We confirmed that the algebraic degree of the permutation Qj which is an important non-linear component of Luffa grows slower than an ideal case both by the theoretical and the experimental approaches. According to our estimate, we can construct a distinguisher for step-reduced variants of Luffa v1 up ...