Personal UV exposure on a ski-field at an alpine site
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1 Sapienza – University of Rome, Dept. of Physics, Rome, Italy 2 ARPA Valle d’Aosta (Aosta Valley Regional Environmental Protection Agency), Saint-Christophe (Aosta), Italy 3 Australian Sun and Health Research Laboratory, Queensland University of Technology, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Brisbane, Australia 4 Sapienza University of Rome, Dept. of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, Rome, Italy
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