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School furniture match to students' anthropometry in the Gaza Strip

Salah R. Agha School of Industrial Engineering, Islamic University-Gaza, Gaza StripCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 344-354 | Received 24 Feb 2009, Accepted 07 Oct 2009, Published online: 25 Feb 2010

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