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            <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">TOBIOJ</journal-id>
            <journal-title>The Open Biology Journal</journal-title>
            <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Open Bio. J.</abbrev-journal-title>
            <issn pub-type="epub">1874-1967</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>Bentham Open</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
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            <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">TOBIOJ-2-38</article-id>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2174/1874196700902010038</article-id>
            <article-categories>
                <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
                    <subject>Biology</subject>
                </subj-group>
            </article-categories>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>How Solar Activity Influences Earth's Molecular Processes</article-title>
            </title-group>
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                <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
                    <name>
                        <surname>K. Evstafyev</surname>
                        <given-names>Vladimir</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">&#x002A;</xref>
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            <aff>Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131, USA.</aff>
            <author-notes>
                <corresp id="cor1">
                    <label>&#x002A;</label>Address correspondence to this author at the Institute of Applied Physics,
Irkutsk State University, Gagarin boulevard 20, Irkutsk 664003, Siberia; E-mail: <email xlink:href="evs@api.isu.ru">evs@api.isu.ru</email></corresp>
            </author-notes>
            <pub-date pub-type="epub">
                <day>07</day>
                <month>5</month>
                <year>2009</year>
            </pub-date>
            <pub-date pub-type="collection">
                <year>2009</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>2</volume>
            <fpage>38</fpage>
            <lpage>41</lpage>
            <history>
                <date date-type="received">
                    <day>06</day>
                    <month>11</month>
                    <year>2008</year>
                </date>
                <date date-type="rev-recd">
                    <day>21</day>
                    <month>01</month>
                    <year>2009</year>
                </date>
                <date date-type="accepted">
                    <day>23</day>
                    <month>01</month>
                    <year>2009</year>
                </date>
            </history>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>&#x00A9; 2009 K. Evstafyev <italic>et al.</italic></copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2009</copyright-year>
                <copyright-holder>Vladimir K. Evstafyev</copyright-holder>
                <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode">
                    <p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (<uri xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode</uri>). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</p>
                </license>
            </permissions>
            <abstract>
                <p>The paper presents a solution to the two-century old problem of how solar activity influences biological objects
on Earth. It gives a description of the modern state of the kT-problem, which for a long time has been the most difficult
obstacle in the way of explaining solar activity effects. Based on recent advances in spin chemistry, magnetoplasticity
physics, and physics of critical conditions, it is shown that a "molecular target" sensitive to weak electromagnetic fields
and corresponding radio emissions of the Sun has spin dynamics in non-equilibrium and is near the lower critical point of
dividing into layers. A way is proposed as to how solar activity can have an influence on Earth's molecular, including
biological, processes through a "transparency window" of the Earth's atmosphere at the 80Mhz frequency.</p>
            </abstract>
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                <title>Keywords</title>
                <kwd>Solar-terrestrial</kwd>
                <kwd>spin dynamics</kwd>
                <kwd>singlet-triplet conversion</kwd>
                <kwd>lower critical point of dividing into layers</kwd>
                <kwd>biological effects of solar activity</kwd>
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