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Biscuits are popular and convenient food products due to their ready to eat nature. Biscuits were prepared from sorghum and whole wheat flour with the addition of spirulina (Spirulina platensis) powder to produce high fibre and high protein biscuit. Levels of ingredients in biscuits such as spirulina powder, sorghum flour and guar gum were optimized using response surface methodology (RSM) for its sensory, textural and antioxidant attributes. Sensory attributes as colour intensity (R2 = 0.89, P < 0.0001), flavor (R2 = 0.98, P < 0.0001), sweetness (R2 = 0.97, P < 0.0001), graininess (R2 = 0.99, P < 0.0001), and crispiness (R2 = 0.94, P < 0.0001), textural attributes as hardness (R2 = 0.95, P < 0.0001) and fracturability (R2 = 0.96, P < 0.0001), antioxidant activity as DPPH inhibition (R2 = 0.87, P < 0.0001) and antioxidant activity as ABTS inhibition (R2 = 0.98, P < 0.0001) were significantly related to processing parameters of biscuit. Rheological characteristics (TPA and extensograph) of biscuit dough were measured. Studies indicated that amongst all the processing parameters, the composition of spirulina powder and sorghum flour was found to have significant effect on the responses.

A novel MIMO sharp band-notched antenna with high isolation for UWB applications is presented. The antenna consists of two antenna elements with an overall area of 18 × 36 mm 2. A T-shaped stub is extruded in the ground plane to improve isolation and an L-shaped stub to introduce band-notched function C-band (3.62-4.77 GHz). The designed antenna possesses a low mutual coupling of <−20 dB over the operating band from 2.9 to 20 GHz. The performance of this antenna is studied in terms of isolation between the two ports, radiation pattern, efficiency, realised gain, and envelope correlation coefficient. Conclusion: We have proposed enhanced bandwidth, compact, MIMO antenna with band-notched characteristics for modern wireless UWB applications. The proposed MIMO antenna offers an impedance bandwidth of 17.1 GHz (from 2.9 to 20 GHz) with a good impedance matching and good isolation over the operating band with band notched at C-band.