Maximum voluntary contraction as a function of upper extremity posture in females

Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Association, 'Ergonomics for the New Millennium'

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 441-444

  Hegmann, Kurt T ^a   Garg, Arun ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL POSTURES; MAXIMUM VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION (MVC);

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; JOB ANALYSIS; TORQUE;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 1842658855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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