PURPOSE To study daytime or nighttime variability of mean arterial pressure and ocular perfusion pressure in untreated normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) patients and determine whether increased short-term mean arterial pressure and/or ocular perfusion pressure variability are associated with greater risk of visual field (VF) progression. DESIGN Longitudinal, retrospective, observational study. ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the role of autonomic function and other possible factors associated with a blunted fall in nocturnal blood pressure. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 39 normotensive normnoalbuminuric type 1 diabetic patients were studied. Glomerular filtration rate (51Cr-EDTA technique), extracellular volume (51Cr-EDTA distribution volume), and urinary albumin excretion rate (UAER...

А im: to assess the influence of patient's psychotype on degree nighttime reduction in blood pressure (BP) determine predictors an unfavorable daily BP profile. Materials and methods. The study involved 80 patients with newly diagnosed or untreated arterial hypertension (AH), various stages, severity, risk developing cardiovascular complications, absence concomitant severe somatic pathology, wh...

Dipper throated optimization (DTO) algorithm is a novel with very efficient metaheuristic inspired by the dipper bird. DTO has its unique hunting technique performing rapid bowing movements. To show efficiency of proposed algorithm, tested and compared to algorithms Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Whale Algorithm (WOA), Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), Genetic (GA) based on seven unimodal benchmar...

Generalizing recent work of Brundan and Kleshchev, we introduce grading on Dipper-James’ q-Schur algebra, and prove a graded analogue of the Leclerc and Thibon’s conjecture on the decomposition numbers of the q-Schur algebra.