Comparing workload and performance during demanding push force and mental tasks.
BACKGROUND: The effects of performing occupational tasks that demand physical and mental efforts in combined and simultaneous approaches are unknown, especially when pushing force is analyzed as a physical effort and solving arithmetic problems as a mental effort. OBJECTIVE: In this study, physical...
| Published in: | Work Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 303 - 315 |
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| Format: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2023
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