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Preliminary Reports

An Experimental Model of Heat Storage in Working Firefighters

, MD, , MSE, , MD, , PhD & , MD, PhD
Pages 225-235 | Received 21 Sep 2007, Accepted 27 Nov 2007, Published online: 02 Jul 2009

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