Yoshinori Nagasawa and Shinichi Demura. Japanese Women’s Age-related Differences between Controlled Force Exertion Measured by a Computer-generated Sinusoidal Waveform and a Bar Chart Display.
. 2014; 2(6):212-217. doi: 10.12691/AJSSM-2-6-2
controlled force exertion, hand strength, psychomotor performance, correlation coefficient
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