Recognition of military-specific physical activities with body-fixed sensors

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 858-864

  Wyss, Thomas ^a   Mäder, Urs ^a  

^a Federal Office of Sport   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; DECISION TREE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; SWITZERLAND; WORK CAPACITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWITZERLAND; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 78149251801     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00023     Document Type: Article

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