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Laura K Stewart1, Michael G Flynn, Wayne W Campbell

  • 1Department of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2401, USA. Stewart6@lsu.edu

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
|October 3, 2007
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