Birth date and sporting success

Latitude, Birth Date, and Allergy

BACKGROUND The space and time distribution of risk factors for allergic diseases may provide insights into disease mechanisms. Allergy is believed to vary by month of birth, but multinational studies taking into account latitude have not been conducted. METHODS AND FINDINGS A questionnaire was distributed in 54 centres to a representative sample of 20- to 44-y-old men and women mainly in Euro...

Birth order as a quantitative expression of date of birth.

Publications on birth order mostly differ in their findings. In 1874 Galton1 stated that firstborn dominated among eminent men. Thirty years later, Pearson2 claimed that society was corrupted through the defects of firstborn. Surveys3-covering hundreds of books and articles give a remarkably inconsistent picture of the influence of sibling position on physical and psychological development. In ...

Sporting Success, Role Models and Participation: a Policy Related Review a Research Study for Sportscotland

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The increasing ability to interconnect computers through internetworking, wireless networks, high-bandwidth satellite, and cable networks has spawned a new class of information-centered applications based on data dissemination. These applications, which often serve huge client populations, employ broadcast to efficiently deliver data to the clients. In data dissemination, the data transfer is i...

What makes champions? A review of the relative contribution of genes and training to sporting success.

Elite sporting performance results from the combination of innumerable factors, which interact with one another in a poorly understood but complex manner to mould a talented athlete into a champion. Within the field of sports science, elite performance is understood to be the result of both training and genetic factors. However, the extent to which champions are born or made is a question that ...