Place but not Date of Birth Influences the Development and Emergence of Athletic Talent in American Football

The purpose of this study was to examine the birthplace and relative age effects in National Football League (NFL) players. The place and date of birth of NFL players in the United States were analyzed with Monte Carlo simulations to determine if either factor was predictive of the probability of reaching the elite level in this sport. Consistent with previous findings on professional North American athletes in baseball, ice hockey, basketball, and golf, players born in cities with populations of less than 500,000 were significantly over-represented in the NFL, whereas players born in cities with populations over 500,000 were significantly under-represented. Unlike many other sports, no relative age effects were found for the NFL. Small cities, in particular, appeared to possess characteristics that facilitate the development and/or emergence of athletic talent in American football. Possible psychosocial factors mediating the birthplace effect are discussed as are implications for the development of sporting expertise.

America in English fiction, 1760-1800; the influences of the American Revolution

"America in the novel, 1761-1800": p. 439-442; "The West Indies in the English novel, 1761-1800": p. 443-445; "The East Indies in the English novel, 1761-1800": p. 446-448; "List of chief works consulted": p.449-460.

Facts illustrative of the practical tendencies of the distinctive views, principles, agencies, and influences of the leading men in the origination of the American union, and in the formation and successive administrations of the government.

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The managed casualty; Japanese-American family in World War II,

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Reflections on American relations with Japan. Prepared as a background paper for the Conference on Japanese-American relations to be held at Honolulu, Jan. 17-20, 1953, under the auspices of the Institute of Pacific Relations of Hawaii and the Japan Institute of Pacific Relations.

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The profile of American youth : demographic influences on ASVAB test performance /

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The Axis alliance and Japanese-American relations, 1941.

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日英米独佛露華対訳鉄〓辞典 = Railway dictionary : Japanese, English, American, German, French, Russian & Chinese

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The making of Pennyslvania; an analysis of the elements of the population and the formative influences that created one of the greatest of the American states,

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Events and influences of the Spanish-American War, 1898-1902.

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American Diplomacy in the Far East; Official Press Releases of the U.S. Dept. of State on the Sino-Japanese Situation

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One Hundred Years of the Concert Marimba: American and Japanese Innovation and Convergence, 1915 to 2014

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Cultural and gender influences on age identification

Age identification plays a significant role in young adults" mass, interpersonal, intergenerational, and intercultural communication. This research examines cultural and gender influences on young people's age identity by measuring the social age identity of male and female young adult members of five cultures varying in individualism/collectivism (Laos, Thailand, Spain, Australia, and the U.S.A.). We found cultural influences on age identity to be both unexpected in nature and modest in effect. American and Laotian respondents had similar and nominally higher levels of age identity than Australian, Thai, and Spanish respondents, with all having a markedly different age identities than those of Japanese respondents as reported by other researchers. No direct effect for gender on age identity emerged, though American females were more age identified than all other respondents. Across cultures, the social identity scale was found to be a reasonably adequate measure of age identity.