Background and Objective: Cervical cancer involves many women annually and Pop smear test has played a significant role in reducing its mortality and for this reason, its improvement is very essential. In this respect, cervex brush is a new tool that has been introduced in many countries. Therefore, this study was conducted to compare Pop smears from COTTON swab-spatula and Cervex brush methods with regard to cell number. Materials and Methods: The clinical trial and randomized protocol of this study was conducted on 400 women as referrals of gynecology clinic of Hazrat Rassoul Akram (s) hospital and the cases with inclusion criteria were further investigated and their data using above-mentioned methods were compared. For statistical analysis, SPSS software and student's t-test and chi-square tests were used. Results: It was found out that the mean age of cases was 34.13±9.3 years. Meanwhile, there was a significant difference between the groups regarding endocervical cells (p<0.001) and bleeding on sampling (p<0.001).Conclusion: It is concluded that appropriate use of Cervex brush method can prevent the need for re-sampling regarding Pop smear test and in this way it can lower health-related costs.

COTTON, as a strategic crop, plays an important role in providing the human food and clothing needs due to oil, protein and fiber. Due to the high cost of COTTON production (due to the high number of working days required), the use of COTTON harvesting machines is in the interest of most farmers. In this study, the performance of COTTON picker in new COTTON cultivars was compared with each other. In this research, the efficiency of Performance of John Deere 9920 COTTON picker was investigated on five new COTTON cultivars Golestan, Armaqan, Kashmar, Sajedi and Khorshid. The project was implemented in a Randomized Complete Block Design with three replications and data was analyzed by using SAS software. The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the five cultivars in terms of machine harvest efficiency. Golestan cultivar had the best performance with an average of 87. 6 percent of total harvestable seed COTTON. Considering 8% of the residues per plant of this cultivar, the machine harvest efficiency will have reached to 95. 6 % if we could have used COTTON picker again.

The COTTON leaf roller moth, Haritalodes derogata (Fabricius, 1775) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) was collected on two kinds of flowering shrubs, Hibiscus syriacusL. and Hibiscus mutabilis L., in Rasht, Guilan Province, during August 2013. This species represents a generic new record for the fauna of Iran. A brief description of the species is provided to facilitate the identification.