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Influence of Age and Expertise on Manual Dexterity in the Work Context: The Bremen-Hand-Study@Jacobs

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank all subjects participating in the study, the students and interns assisting in carrying out the experiments and Britta Molter and Dirk Hormann for carefully proofreading the manuscript (DFG VO 1432/7-1).

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  1. Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

    Eva-Maria Reuter & Solveig Vieluf

  2. Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development and AgeAct Research Center, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

    Claudia Voelcker-Rehage & Ben Godde

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  1. , Inst. of Industrial Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Bergdriesch 27, Aachen, 52062, Germany

    Christopher Marc Schlick

  2. , Institute of Industrial Science, University of Kassel, Heinrich-Plett-Straße 40, Kassel, 34132, Germany

    Ekkehart Frieling

  3. , Inst. of Work-, Organisational- and, TU Dresden, Zellescher Weg 17, Dresden, 01062, Germany

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Voelcker-Rehage, C., Reuter, EM., Vieluf, S., Godde, B. (2013). Influence of Age and Expertise on Manual Dexterity in the Work Context: The Bremen-Hand-Study@Jacobs. In: Schlick, C., Frieling, E., Wegge, J. (eds) Age-Differentiated Work Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35057-3_17

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