TY  - JOUR
AU  - Blesić, Suzana
AU  - Stratimirović, Đorđe
AU  - Ajtić, Jelena
AU  - Wright, Caradee Y.
AU  - Allen, Martin W.
PY  - 2016
UR  - https://smile.stomf.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2098
AB  - Personal sun exposure measurements provide important information to guide the development of sun awareness and disease prevention campaigns. We assess the scaling properties of personal ultraviolet radiation (pUVR) sun exposure measurements using the wavelet transform (WT) spectral analysis to process long-range, high-frequency personal recordings collected by electronic UVR dosimeters designed to measure erythemal UVR exposure. We analysed the sun exposure recordings of school children, farmers, marathon runners and outdoor workers in South Africa, and construction workers and work site supervisors in New Zealand. We found scaling behaviour in all the analysed pUVR data sets. We found that the observed scaling changes from uncorrelated to long-range correlated with increasing duration of sun exposure. Peaks in the WT spectra that we found suggest the existence of characteristic times in sun exposure behaviour that were to some extent universal across our data set. Our study also showed that WT measures enable group classification, as well as distinction between individual UVR exposures, otherwise unattainable by conventional statistical methods.
PB  - Nature Publishing Group, New York
T2  - Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
T1  - Novel approach to analysing large data sets of personal sun exposure measurements
VL  - 26
IS  - 6
SP  - 613
EP  - 620
DO  - 10.1038/jes.2016.43
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Blesić, Suzana and Stratimirović, Đorđe and Ajtić, Jelena and Wright, Caradee Y. and Allen, Martin W.",
year = "2016",
abstract = "Personal sun exposure measurements provide important information to guide the development of sun awareness and disease prevention campaigns. We assess the scaling properties of personal ultraviolet radiation (pUVR) sun exposure measurements using the wavelet transform (WT) spectral analysis to process long-range, high-frequency personal recordings collected by electronic UVR dosimeters designed to measure erythemal UVR exposure. We analysed the sun exposure recordings of school children, farmers, marathon runners and outdoor workers in South Africa, and construction workers and work site supervisors in New Zealand. We found scaling behaviour in all the analysed pUVR data sets. We found that the observed scaling changes from uncorrelated to long-range correlated with increasing duration of sun exposure. Peaks in the WT spectra that we found suggest the existence of characteristic times in sun exposure behaviour that were to some extent universal across our data set. Our study also showed that WT measures enable group classification, as well as distinction between individual UVR exposures, otherwise unattainable by conventional statistical methods.",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group, New York",
journal = "Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology",
title = "Novel approach to analysing large data sets of personal sun exposure measurements",
volume = "26",
number = "6",
pages = "613-620",
doi = "10.1038/jes.2016.43"
}

Blesić, S., Stratimirović, Đ., Ajtić, J., Wright, C. Y.,& Allen, M. W.. (2016). Novel approach to analysing large data sets of personal sun exposure measurements. in Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
Nature Publishing Group, New York., 26(6), 613-620.
https://doi.org/10.1038/jes.2016.43

Blesić S, Stratimirović Đ, Ajtić J, Wright CY, Allen MW. Novel approach to analysing large data sets of personal sun exposure measurements. in Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. 2016;26(6):613-620.
doi:10.1038/jes.2016.43 .

Blesić, Suzana, Stratimirović, Đorđe, Ajtić, Jelena, Wright, Caradee Y., Allen, Martin W., "Novel approach to analysing large data sets of personal sun exposure measurements" in Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 26, no. 6 (2016):613-620,
https://doi.org/10.1038/jes.2016.43 . .