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Schematic representation of a circadian virtual rhythm and its parameters (period, zenith or acrophase, mean level or mesor, amplitude), obtained by fitting a sinusoidal curve to a naïf pattern of data by the “least squares” method: Period of 24 h = 360° ([13], reproduced with permission of the Editor).
