Mechanics and energetics of swinging the human leg

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Journal of Experimental Biology

• Publication date

  2005-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1242/jeb.01408PMID 15671332
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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