Promoting safety belt use with traffic signs and prompters.
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Safety belt use, ejection and entrapment.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0021-8855
DOI: 10.1901/jaba.1989.22-71