Exposure Characteristics to Noise Among Tunnel Construction Workers
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عنوان ژورنال: Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1598-2785
DOI: 10.5050/ksnve.2013.23.9.831