Planning Military Drinking Water Needs: Development of a User-Friendly Smart Device Application.
Potable water is essential to maintain health and sustain military operations, but carrying and transporting water is a major logistical burden. Planning for group drinking water needs is complex, requiring understanding of sweat losses on the basis of intensity of activity, clothing biophysical par...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 181; no. 9; pp. 1142 - 1151 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2016
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