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Published on: September 19, 2018

G Li1, C M Haslegrave, E N Corlett

  • 1Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Management, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.

Applied Ergonomics
|February 1, 1995
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