This overview paper highlights the successes of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on
board the Aura satellite spanning a period of nearly 14 years. Data from OMI has been used …

The primary biological role of human skin pigmentation is as a mediator of penetration of
ultraviolet radiation (UVR) into the deep layers of skin and the cutaneous circulation. Since …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic debilitating inflammatory disease of unknown ethology
targeting the central nervous system (CNS). MS has a polysymptomatic onset and is usually …

Vitamin D plays a critical role in calcium and phosphate metabolism and helps maintain
skeletal integrity in childhood, yet vitamin D status in Chinese children and adolescents is …

Intermittent sun exposure is the major environmental risk factor for cutaneous melanoma
(CM). Cumulative sun exposure and other environmental agents, such as environmental …

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation has affected life at least since the first life forms moved out of the
seas and crawled onto the land. Therefore, one might assume that evolution has adapted to …

The spatial and temporal characteristics of the daily ultraviolet index (UVI) in the Riyadh
province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) were examined in this study. A dataset …

Abstract Background Few studies in China have examined personal ultraviolet radiation
(UVR) exposure using polysulfone dosimetry. Methods In this study, 93 mother and …

This paper concerns the use and implementation of penalized maximum likelihood
procedures to fitting smoothing functions of the generalized extreme value distribution …

This research presents a novel methodology for deriving the total daily broadband solar
UVA (320–400 nm) received by school teachers during their working day from Ozone …