The efficiency of human movement--a statement of the problem.

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• Publication year

  1985

• Venue

  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

• Publication date

  1985-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1249/00005768-198506000-00002PMID 4021779
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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