Evaluating learning tasks commonly applied in detection dog training

Canine Ergonomics: The Science of Working Dogs

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 99-114

  Lit, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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