Impact of police body armour and equipment on mobility.

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Applied Ergonomics

• Publication date

  2013-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.apergo.2013.02.011PMID 23668780
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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