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The European project ‘Neuromuscular assessment in the elderly worker’ (NEW): Achievements in electromyogram signal acquisition, modelling and processing

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  1. Laboratory for Engineering of the Neuromuscular System, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    R. Merletti

  2. National Institute for the Elderly, Firenze, Italy

    F. Benvenuti

  3. Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France

    C. Doncarli

  4. Helmholtz Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Aachen, Germany

    C. Disselhorst-Klug

  5. Sirio Automazione, Torino, Italy

    R. Ferrabone

  6. Roessingh Research and Development, Enschede, The Netherlands

    H. J. Hermens

  7. National Institute for Working Life, Goteborg, Sweden

    R. Kadefors

  8. Institute of Hygiene and Applied Physiology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

    T. Läubli

  9. University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

    C. Orizio

  10. National Institute for Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark

    G. Sjøgaard

  11. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Maribor, Slovenia

    D. Zazula

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Merletti, R., Benvenuti, F., Doncarli, C. et al. The European project ‘Neuromuscular assessment in the elderly worker’ (NEW): Achievements in electromyogram signal acquisition, modelling and processing. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 42, 429–431 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02350983

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