Sunshine hours are the only long term, reliable and available measured information that can be used to reach highly accurate estimates of solar radiation values on the Earth surface. In this paper the sunshine duration is used to estimate monthly average daily solar radiation on a horizontal surface, it can be used to predict solar radiation in different climatic region of Iran. According to th...

Christian M Jones Laura Scholes Daniel Johnson Mary Katsikitis Michelle C. Carras University of the Sunshine Coast University of the Sunshine Coast Queensland University of Technology University of the Sunshine Coast Johns Hopkins University Queensland, Australia Queensland, Australia Queensland, Australia Queensland, Australia Baltimore, MD, USA [email protected] [email protected] dm.johns...

Yücel — Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre (Sunshine Hospital), Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria and the ORYGEN Research Centre; Wood, Velakoulis, Pantelis — Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre (Sunshine Hospital), Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne and the Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria; Fornito, Riffkin...

Several reports indicate that suicide follows a seasonal pattern with a dominant peak during the month of maximum daylight. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the hypothesis that sunshine exposure may trigger suicidal behavior. We found a remarkably consistent pattern of seasonality with peak incidence around June in the northern hemisphere and December in the southern hemisphere. Moreov...

Brazilian social protection programs have had consistent effects in reducing poverty and inequality among their respective target-groups: children, adolescents and pregnant and breastfeeding women. In 2011, the Brazil without Extreme Poverty program was launched as a strategy to eradicate extreme poverty by 2014. It makes the promotion of rights the core concept of the official political narrat...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to examine a possible association of amount of sunshine and risk for acute closed angle glaucoma. DESIGN This was a retrospective analysis of hospital discharge registry data, linked to meteorological data for the same period. SETTING The study was a national survey using hospital discharge data for the whole of Finland over a 10 year period. PARTICIPANTS All s...

introduction: over the past hundred years, human activity has significantly altered the atmosphere and increase of concentration of greenhouse gases lead to warm the earth's surface. this global warming leads to change of climatic extreme index and increases the intensity and frequency of occurrence of extreme climate events. investigation of extreme values for planning and policy for the agric...