Abstract Recently, many studies worldwide tapped tree ring pattern for detection of growth events and trends caused by weather extremes climate change. As long-term experiments with permanent survey all trees are rare, trend analyses mostly based on retrospective measurements via increment coring or stem the remaining individual in older forest stands. However, survivor stands may only unsuffic...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effects of tafluprost treatment for 3 years on intraocular pressure (IOP) and visual field performance. METHODS The IOP of 55 patients with normal-tension glaucoma was monitored every 1-3 months for 3 years. The Humphrey visual field test was performed every 6 months after treatment and results compared with before-treatment results. Visual field performance was also e...

Predictions of uprising or falling trends are helpful in different scenarios in which users have to deal with huge amount of information in a timely manner,such as during financial analysis. This temporal aspect in various cases of data analysis requires novel data mining techniques. Assuming that a given set of data, e.g. web news, contains information about a potential trend, e.g. financial c...