The fastest runner on artificial legs: different limbs, similar function?

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Journal of applied physiology

• Publication date

  2009-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1152/japplphysiol.00174.2009PMID 19541739
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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