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Instead, we used the average monthly number of sunlight hours in Valencia from 1938 to 1990, covering most of the exposure period for the study participants [ 17], to account for differences in summer and winter exposures.
Although there is currently enormous research investment into the bulk production of microalgae for biodiesel, photo bioreactors are unlikely to be economically competitive for bioenergy production, and culture in outdoor ponds is only suited to regions with a relatively high number of sunlight hours and even then may still be uncompetitive in the biofuels market [ 9].
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But a bit of sunlight is creeping in.
Utilizing data collected on the number of hours of sunlight exposure experienced on a typical weekday and weekend day during the summer in different time periods, summary scores were calculated.
(Source: LocClim database developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization, ), including rainfall (in mm), temperature (in °C), evapotranspiration (in mm), relative humidity (i.e., water vapour pressure in % saturation), mean number of hours of sunlight per day, and wind speed (in m.s-1).
If you have been germinating the seed in a low-sun area, you will need to move it into the sun and slowly increase the number of hours of sunlight.
The book is a tour de force, showing, for example, how the potential contribution of biofuels can be approximated from just three numbers : the intensity of sunlight , the efficiency with which plants turn that sunlight into stored energy and the available land area in Britain.
Phenotypic characteristics (e.g. hair, eye and skin colour, skin sensitivity to sunlight, number of nevi (moles)), family history, past sun exposure and past history of skin cancer are usually the basis for discriminating individual risk of melanoma [ 5- 7].
However, if the reported number of hours of weekday sunlight exposure was less than that of weekend sunlight exposure, then the participant was considered as having intermittent sunlight exposure.
In "New theory about light and colors", published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1672, Newton presented a number of experiments in which sunlight was allowed to pass through one or two prisms in order to probe some of its basic features.
SF authors and historians Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove summarize Galaxys history by saying that it lasted for "thirty mainly glorious years": it "brought into the sunlight a number of excellent satirists, comedians and ironists" and, through the influence of its reduced focus on technology, played an important role in attracting women to write science fiction.
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The phrase "number of sunlight" functions as a noun phrase, although it is generally considered grammatically incorrect. Ludwig AI indicates that it is not correct in standard written English, and suggests alternatives focusing on "amount" or "intensity".
Expression frequency: Uncommon
