Humans running in place on water at simulated reduced gravity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Minetti, Alberto E ^a   Ivanenko, Yuri P ^b   Cappellini, Germana ^b   Dominici, Nadia ^b,c   Lacquaniti, Francesco ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BASILISK LIZARD; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; GAIT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RUNNING; TRUNK;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYPOGRAVITY; LIZARDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RUNNING; WATER; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

AECHMOPHORUS OCCIDENTALIS; AVES; GERRIDAE; HEXAPODA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 84864021940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037300     Document Type: Article

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