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Kinematic Analysis Using 3D Motion Capture of Drinking Task in People With and Without Upper-extremity Impairments
Published on: March 28, 2018
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Climate change, extreme rainfall events, drinking water and enteric disease
1Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
Reviews on Environmental Health
|February 24, 2019
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