They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.

Five years later, Monsanto conducted the first field tests of genetically engineered crops.

Five atmospheric tests were detonated, starting on 27 January 1951 at Area 5 as part of Operation Ranger.

Five underground tests were set up at Area 5 ; four of those suffered accidental release of radioactive materials.

Objective personality tests can be designed for use in business for potential employees, such as the NEO-PI, the 16PF, and the OPQ ( Occupational Personality Questionnaire ), all of which are based on the Big Five taxonomy.

Befitting its Volvo roots, the Five Hundred has garnered class leading results in crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the U. S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Since these early efforts of these test, a wide variety of personality tests have been developed, notably the Myers Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI ), the MMPI, and a number of tests based on the Five Factor Model of personality.

Five men from the first crew of H. L. Hunley died during early tests when she was accidentally swamped by the wake of a passing ship through her open hatches ; four managed to escape.

Five atmospheric nuclear tests of small power ( 10-40 kt ) were performed over the site in 1957-1961.

Five to six-year-old children passed the tests on conservation of liquid and solid, suggesting a similar process for the cognition of measurement of conservation of liquid and solid, between ape and human.

In 1994 Sony executives approached Party of Five ( FOX ) producer Ken Topolsky and director of photography Roy H. Wagner, ASC, in an effort to photograph side by side tests with Sony's prototype High Def camera and 35mm film.

Five years were spent with the Cologne Opera, after which he was called to Prague by Alexander von Zemlinsky, teacher of Arnold Schonberg and Erich Korngold.

Five milliamperes/cell were applied for 18 hr, after which the strips were stained with bromphenol blue and densitometry was carried out using a Spinco Analytrol.

Five subjects ( 12% ) did not change until they had been told that some people have something happen to their arm, what that something was, and also were given a demonstration.

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set.

Five matches were played in 1902 but the first two were drawn after being hit by bad weather.

Five military districts and commanders were delineated to oversee the region.

In 1913, two of Berg's Five Songs on Picture Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg ( 1912 ) were premièred in Vienna, conducted by Schoenberg.

In ancient Buddhism, lay persons were encouraged, but not obliged, to commit themselves to observe the Five Precepts of morality ().

Five Mi-8 / 17 transport helicopters were later added to the Escadrille d ' Hélicoptères.

Roy Johnson, and Shifty Henry with Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, were other early Fender bass pioneers.

Five atoms of < sup > 262 </ sup > Bh were detected using the method of correlation of genetic parent-daughter decays.

Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

Although The Vanguard folded in 1926, the others were a great triumph and became known as " The Big Five "; they ended Amalgamated Press's near-monopoly of the British comic industry.

Five of these societies became joint stock banks ( Plc ), one merged with another and the other four were taken over by Plc ’ s ( in two cases after the mutual had previously converted to a Plc ).

Five were awarded to officers that never left Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.

Five of the Banda islands were within gunshot of each other and he realised that a fort on the main island Neira would give him full control of the group.

Five of those wounded were shot in the back.

It was also one of the first books in which the cosmological doctrines of Yinyang and the Five Phases were brought to a mature synthesis.

Five of the album's tracks were Neil's solo compositions and two were by Hester, the exuberant " Italian Plastic ", which became a crowd favourite at concerts and the hidden track " I'm Still Here ".

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

The Five Bridges suite, commissioned for the Newcastle Arts Festival, was premiered with a full orchestra conducted by Joseph Eger on 10 October 1969 ( the recorded version is from 17 October in Croydon's Fairfield Hall ).

Five years of intensive archeological investigations at Mayapan were conducted by the archaeologists of the Carnegie Institution in the 1950s, including A. L. Smith, Robert Smith, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Edwin Shook, Karl Ruppert and J. Eric Thompson.

Later in the year, Connolly topped an unscientific poll of " Britain's Favourite Comedian " conducted by TV network Five, placing him ahead of performers such as John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, Dawn French, and Peter Cook.

Five sales were conducted in 1973 and 1974, but sales were poor, and the results unspectacular.

It received 60 % of the votes when BBC Radio Five Live conducted a poll in 2002 to find the favourite sports venue in the United Kingdom.

Rubinstein also conducted and performed music of the nationalistic music group " The Five " to a much greater degree than his brother.

The Expedition Five crewmembers conducted two spacewalks during their stay at the International Space Station.

Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann repudiated the quest for historical Jesus, and although the introduction of The Five Gospels asserts this it suppressed any real interest in the topic from c 1920 to c 1970, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church says there was a brief New Quest movement in the 50s conducted by Bultmann's students, and the search continued without break outside of the Bultmann school.

Five decades of subsequent research conducted by teams based out of the Field Museum of Natural History, the Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona, the Amerind Foundation, and the Mimbres Foundation, confirmed Haury's initial findings.

* KTOK Radio Interview on the Cuban Five and the shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue -- aired on February 9 and 10, 2009, conducted by Radio Host, Reid Mullins.

In one of the largest studies conducted on the effect of birth order on the Big Five, data from a national sample of 9, 664 subjects found no association between birth order and scores on the NEO PI-R personality test.

Five years later NSO conducted another Census of Population registering 15, 389 inhabitants revealing that for 5 years time 1970-1975 the municipality has reached a population increase of 24. 85 %.