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Strategies for increasing evaporative cooling during simulated desert patrol mission

Ursa Ciuha1,2, Mikael Grönkvist3, Igor B Mekjavic4

  • 1a Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School , Ljubljana , Slovenia.

Ergonomics
|June 23, 2015
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