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For a long period, the Iranian entomologists followed a rather narrow spectrum of methods to collect arthropods that are described in taxomomic papers. Recently, this knowledge gap was filled with the publication of a book entitled “Methods for Collecting Insects and other Terrestrial Arthropods”. The book efficiently describes 110 collecting methods in 18 chapters and 468 papges and it contains as well a huge collection of more than 300 illustrations and a considerable set of references. It is highly recommended for both students, professional entomologists and academic personnel.

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This paper presents a mathematical approach for estimating the size of a grass filter area for removing pesticide residues from agricultural drainage waters. The method util-izes a water table management model, DRAINMOD, for simulating drainage waters from agricultural land and then a solute transport model, PRZM2, for simulating pesticide concentrations in drain effluent discharging from grass filters. DRAINMOD was used to estimate daily drain outflows that occurred in a 100 ha subsurface drained field in the Ot-tawa-St. Lawrence lowlands by running the model for a one-in-twenty year annual rain-fall period. Atrazine (AZ), metolachlor (MT) and metribuzin (MZ) are the most common herbicides that are found in drainage waters. The simulated drain outflows were as-sumed to contain 50 µg/l of AZ, MT and MZ residues, and simulations were carried out with PRZM2 to determine the required size of grass filter area to make drainage waters safer for aquatic life and a marine habitat. It was found that no more than 6% of the farm area could be used to reduce the concentrations in drainage waters from 50 µg/l to less than 1 µg/l for the three herbicides.

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The present study analyses the effects of multifunctional areas (MA) for three years (2013–2015) on an intensive multi-crop farm in Portugal. The implementation of MA resulted in a wide range of enhancements in the insect community, such as significant effects as a reservoir, allowing an increase of 102.47% in the number of species and 97.64% of individuals. MA play an important role in conservation strategies and help increase the population of rare and threatened arthropod species.

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Abstract Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is considered as the most compelete document on intellectual property rights because it constitutes different aspects of IPRs such as copyrights, related rights, goods and service trade marks, geographical indications, industrial designs, patent and alike Also, it provides different sanctions of IPR protection. For accession to TRIPs, Iran is required to conform its domestic laws on IP with this Agreemant. Naturally, this accession would give rise to some rights and commitments for that country. The present article, tries to consider copyrights and related rights in TRIPs and Iran accession to it.

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Granting of intellectual property rights on biological materials could be very contentious issue from cultural, legal, ethical and religious points of view. This could be even more complicated, once it acquires an international dimension. The Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) is the latest international arrangement under which, a complex structure for international protection of intellectual property rights has been created. However, while it embodies some provisions of pervious international documents on intellectual property rights, it reflects a unique and unprecedented scheme of protection of intellectual property rights, which also highlights a tension between developed and developing countries especially over the patentability of biological inventions. The provisions of TRIPs make it difficult for developing countries to deny such protection. However, it is possible for them to limit the scope of such protection by relying on exceptions provided by TRIPs and also by relying on the distinction between invention and discovery. These strategies would allow developing countries to exercise some discretion in defining the scope of patentable biotechnologies.

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    Provisional measures such as injunction, securing evidence, freezing injunction and suspension of releas are among the most important legal measures adopted in fair and equitable proceedings related to the intellectual property rights, which have been considered in the third chapter of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) . In the Iranian legal system, this subject is more or less given attention. This study, however, reveals that the new law not only did not put us in a better situation in comparison with the previous law, but also created imperfections and ambiguities that didn’t exist in the previous law. The executive regulations of the new law, sporadically and in a disorderly way have adopted some of the provisions of the previous regulations as part of efforts to remove the existing imperfections and flaws. Actually, it has exceeded the legal limits in some cases. In this research, the author draws a comparison between the new law and the TRIPs Agreement while challenging the new law and its executive regulations. Finally, it sets forth some proposals for amending the existing law.      

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Fried potato products are very popular due to their desired quality properties, taste and texture, but their high fat content has caused concern in society. The use of edible coatings before frying is effective in reducing oil absorption. In this research, the effect of different concentration (0, 0.5 and 1%) of pectin and carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) gums as a coating agent on oil absorption and quality properties of French Fries was investigated and optimized by the response surface methodology. Result showed that the moisture content of the samples increased as the concentration of pectin and CMC gums increased, but the amount of oil absorption, water loss during frying and the amount of required maximum shearing force for cuting the produced French fries decreased. Colorimetric results showed that, with increasing CMC gum concentration (Up to 1.2%), the brightness (L) and color difference (DE) of the produced French fries increased, but, the use of CMC gum concentrations higher than 1.2% reduced the color parameters of L and DE of the final product. Results showed that using pectin and CMC gums increased the color parameters a and b of the produced French fries. coating potato stripes with 0.69% pectin gum and 1.49% CMC gum are the optimum conditions for coating process of potato strips and at this condition, the quality parameters of the produced French fries are maintained optimally. Application of pectin and CMC gums lead to produce low fat French fries without adverse effect on quality attributes of final product.

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In this study, the antioxidant properties of nanoencapsulated rosemary leave extract in biopolymer basil (Ocimum basilicum) seed gum coating to control the oxidative stability of sunflower oil and sensorial properties of fried potato strips were studied. The rosemary leaves extract obtained by ultrasonic bath has phenolic compounds (174.4 ± 25.9 mg gallic acid / g extract) and flavonoid (78.30 ± 3.2 mg rutin / g extract). Antioxidant activity of DPPH free radical scavenging by IC50 was 98.16 ppm and oxidative stability at 200 ppm was 5.08 h. The average size of nanoparticles in basil seed gum coating was 284.2 nm. The peroxide value and thiobarbituric acid value of oil samples were calculated every 4 days (0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24 days). The results showed that oil oxidation in samples containing nanoencapsulated rosemary extract was less than the control sample, oil containing free extract or TBHQ. At the end of 24 days of incubation period, the peroxide value of oil samples containing synthetic antioxidant TBHQ and oil samples containing nanoencapsulated rosemary extract in the basil seed gum were 23.4 and 17.80 mEq O2/ kg oil and thiobarbituric acid value were 0.16 and 0.06 mg of malondialdehyde/kg oil respectively. In addition, the higher sensorial score of color, odor, taste and overall acceptance was related to potato strips fried in oil containing nanoencapsulated rosemary extract. The results of this study suggest the use of nanoencapsulated rosemary extract in basil seed gum coating to increase shelf life of sunflower oil.

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The present article examines the Iranian intellectual property rights system regarding handicrafts; emphasizes the provisions of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (WTO). Handicrafts as a subject that can be supported by the intellectual property rights system has not received much attention so far. On the other hand, this type of artwork has become increasingly important both globally and commercially. The main question raised in this study is what is the approach of the Iranian intellectual property rights system and the TRIPS agreement to handicrafts? And how can it effectively support these works?
The findings of the article indicate that handicrafts are examples of visual arts and there is no uniform approach to them in the Iranian legal system and the TRIPS Agreement and other international documents. In Iranian law, it can be protected in copyright or industrial design systems, geographical indications and trademarks. The TRIPS Agreement addresses the commercial aspects of intellectual property rights in general and in particular, and refers to the Berne Convention on literary and artistic rights.