Sentence examples for proportion of light from inspiring English sources

All three were well behind the 26.4 miles a gallon average for Toyota and the 29.8 for Honda, largely because Japanese automakers sell a far smaller proportion of light trucks.

Re "True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd" (Basics, Oct. 23): Our color vision depends on the proportion of light absorbed by three different receptors — one most sensitive to red light, another to green and a third to blue.

A glossary at the end of his book explains terms such as albedo ("The proportion of light reflected from a surface") or serac ("A bulging tower of ice on a glacier"), but does not reach to the verbs and adjectives he digs up for the effects of sound or light: yabber, jabbly, sintering, bermed, moshed.

Run-wheel experience increased overall activity and decreased proportion of light activity, but did not alter rhythm amplitude or period.

Proportion of light activity at 2 months was a good predictor of circadian rhythm disruption at 7 months.

With the increase in the proportion of light component oil in heavy oil, flash point decreases faster while other items change insensitively.

Speed limiters are compulsory for heavy vehicles in the SUN countries [8], but not in the U.S. The proportion of light-duty vehicles/passenger cars exceeding the posted limit by road type and country is given in Table 6.

We compared the pattern of amyloid deposition in four individuals with amyloid protein derived from variable light chain gene O18-O8, the source of a high proportion of amyloidogenic light chains, and in whom all or most of the fibril protein had been determined by amino acid sequencing.

The tight packing is needed to achieve a high photopigment density, which allows a large proportion of the light photons that reach the photoreceptor to be absorbed.

They have found that the proportion of ¹²C a light isotope of carbon that is more easily incorporated by living organisms into organic matter than its heavy cousin, ¹³C increased on at least three occasions during the Ediacaran period.

There is negative relation between the proportion of night light value above 5 and the birthrate and natural increase rates.