Energy-saving gait mechanics with head-supported loads

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1995-05-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1038/375052A0PMID 7723841
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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