Metabolic and kinematic responses of African women headload carriers under controlled conditions of load and speed.

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  Ergonomics

• Publication date

  1989-12-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/00140138908966923PMID 2634557
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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