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Fenugreek seeds are rich source of protein, minerals, vitamins, gum, fiber, alkaloid, flavonoids, saponin and volatile compounds Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) is a legume and it has been used as a spice throughout the world to enhance the sensory quality of foods. It is known for its medicinal qualities such as antidiabetic, anticarcinogenic, hypocholesterolemic, antioxidant, and immunological activities. There for in this study we prepared the fenugreek powder as nutraceutical from seeds of Trigonella foenum graecum. It is evaluated for chemical test, particle size.

The current digital era is trending with a secure and advances optimized watermarking schemes for digital images. For optimization of the result that has been obtained by applying the DCT-DWT on the original image is being accomplished by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). In this paper, the watermark is inserted in the DWT-DCT coefficients, where the value of the coefficients is larger than some specific value. The embedding of the watermark is in the region with low-frequency coefficients. This paper mainly focuses on DCT-DWT but SVD is also tried on the image watermarking. The PSO is first compared with proposed modified inertia weight-based PSO on standard test function and its effectiveness is proposed. Later, to check the undetectability and to gain the optimized result modified PSO is applied in the image watermarking process. It is also checked that it is robust or not by applying some attacks on the image. Simulation results show that there is a marginal difference between the original and watermarked image. The Optimization technique is successfully implemented to achieve an optimal watermarking solution.

narily tall, thin man with a hugely wide smile, he became a computer consultant. However, from early on, he was one of the few in his generation who noticed—with concern—that the young people growing up in the favelas on the hills overlooking his middle-class neighborhood had no access to this digital world. Because he has the great entrepreneur’s tenacity of observation and thought as well as action, he decided he had to take on the digital divide—well before the phrase came into currency—and he has been pursuing this vision relentlessly ever since. While beginning to work toward this dream as a teenager, he learned just how motivated and capable of learning the young people in the favelas were. And also how competent the favela community was in organizing. This respect underlies the central insight that has allowed Rodrigo to have a growing multi-continental impact. Rodrigo provides only what the community cannot: typically computers, software, and training. The community does the organizing, finding space, recruiting the students and faculty, and providing ongoing administration. The result is a uniquely economical model, and also one where, because the investment strengthens the broader community, it is self-sustaining and a foundation for other initiatives long into the future. Rodrigo’s chain of hundreds of community-based computer training schools now serves hundreds of slums across Latin America and Asia. These schools now have 700,000 graduates. I got a sense of Rodrigo’s power when he came to Washington shortly after being elected an Ashoka Fellow. Somehow he convinced the Inter-American Development Bank to give him its used (but highly valuable) computers. Somehow he convinced the Brazilian Air Force first to warehouse and then to fly these computers home. And then he somehow managed to persuade the Brazilian customs authority to allow all these computers in at a time when Brazil was trying to block computer imports. William Drayton

A 32 year old male, positive for human immunodeficiency virus (mY) antibodies, was found to be positive for multiple opportunistic infections by a parasite and a fungi, which is a very rare occurrence. Cryptosporidium and Geotrichum were simultaneously detected from his stool and sputum respectively.