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Macroscopic aspects of gross motor control: a test of the end-state comfort effect
Melanie Lam1, Kristen McFee, Romeo Chua
1School of Human Kinetic, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
|October 6, 2006
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