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Dissipation rate of H (solid lines) during a single night of sleep for (A) the homeostatic mechanism and (B) the circadian mechanism. Dashed horizontal lines indicate zero. Note the time axes are shifted between panels due to slightly different timing of sleep for each mechanism.
