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Latvian Scientific-Research Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Riga. Riga Polytechnic Institute. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 6, pp. 1079–1083, November–December, 1976.
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Merten, A.A., Dzenis, V.V., Shumskii, V.V. et al. A study of the effect of physical stresses on the state of human tibial bones according to ultrasonic measurement data. Polymer Mechanics 12, 942–946 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00856496
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