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.

This gave R. D. Low, the head of children's publications at D. C. Thomson at the time, the idea to create another Big Five, this time of comics intended for both boys and girls and consisting mainly of ' funnies ' and more lighthearted adventure and text stories.

Wartime shortages also prevented the New Big Five project from being completed.

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.

" Big Five " ( lion, leopard, African elephant, African buffalo, and Black Rhinoceros ) are found in the Maasai Mara.

Today, the Big Five factors have the weight of a considerable amount of empirical research behind them, building on the work of Cattell and others.

* Lewis Goldberg proposed a five-dimension personality model, nicknamed the " Big Five ":

: The Big Five contain important dimensions of personality.

The three dimensions-Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience are considered to be basically the same as their counterpart dimensions in the Big Five Model.

However, in the HEXACO model, Honesty-Humility, Emotionality and Agreeableness differ from the Neuroticism and Agreeableness factors of the Big Five Model.

Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, and Rodan are described as being Toho's " Big Five " due to the monsters ' numerous appearances in all three eras of the franchise, as well as spin-offs.

Since deregulation the majority ( 80 % by the late 1990s ) of these local bus companies have been taken over by one of the " Big Five " private transport companies: Arriva ( part of Deutsche Bahn AG ), First Group, Go-Ahead Group, National Express Group ( owners of National Express ) and Stagecoach Group.

By April 1927, the Big Five studios ( First National, Paramount, MGM, Universal, and Producers Distributing ) had put the Warner brothers in financial ruin, and Western Electric renewed Warner's Vitaphone contract with terms that allowed other film companies to test sound.

Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the " Big Five " accounting firms among PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG, providing auditing, tax, and consulting services to large corporations.

In her Pulitzer Prize-nominated book The Nurture Assumption, author Judith Harris argues that " nurture ," as traditionally defined in terms of family upbringing does not effectively explain the variance for most traits ( such as adult IQ and the Big Five personality traits ) in the general population of the United States.

The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission and members of the investment community began to raise concerns about potential conflicts of interest between the consulting and auditing work amongst the Big Five and in May 2000, EY was the first of the firms to formally and fully separate its consulting practices via a sale to the French IT services company Cap Gemini for $ 11 billion, largely in stock, creating the new company of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, which was later renamed Capgemini.

Notable examples include Polyester Books in Melbourne, Australia ; Cafe Royal in the UK ; Reading Frenzy and Powell's in Portland, OR ; Needles and Pens in San Francisco ; Atomic Books in Baltimore ; Quimby's in Chicago ; Mac's Backs Paperbacks in Cleveland, OH ; Boxcar Books in Bloomington, Indiana ; Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia ; Civic Media Center in Gainesville, FL ; Bluestockings in New York City ; Five in Charleston, SC ; Brian MacKenzie Infoshop in Washington, DC ; Book Beat & Co. in Oklahoma City, OK ; Printed Matter in New York City ; Copacetic Comics Co. and Big Idea Bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA ; Reading Material in Tokyo, Japan ; On Reading in Nagoya, Japan ; as well as MonkeyWrench Books and Domy Books in Austin, TX.

* Big Five ( disambiguation )

The Big Five is an informal term used to describe the legislative leadership role in the institution of California government, consisting of the governor, the Assembly speaker, the Assembly minority leader, the Senate president pro tempore, and the Senate minority leader.

Members of the Big Five meet in private to discuss bills pending in the legislature.

They are thus able to exert some influence in their caucus's votes in Big Five meetings.

Together with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy, Pluto is one of the " Big Five " -- the biggest stars in the Disney universe.

It was founded as the Pacific Coast Conference ( PCC ), in 1915, whose principal members founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities ( AAWU ) in 1959, and went by the names Big Five, Big Six, Pacific-8, Pacific-10, becoming the Pacific-12 in 2011.

Wheaton returned in Season Five of The Big Bang Theory in the episode " The Russian Rocket Reaction ".

The framework for the Big Bang model relies on Albert Einstein's general relativity and on simplifying assumptions such as homogeneity and isotropy of space.

Within the framework of the Big Five model of personality some consistent traits have emerged.

Most of the barrel sections for Big Babylon were delivered to, and assembled on, a site excavated from the side of a hill ; instead of being suspended by cables from a steel framework as originally planned: calculations had shown that the original support framework would be insufficiently rigid.

General relativity is also part of the framework of the standard Big Bang model of cosmology.

Szilva worked with Jim Nemis, whose company Noront Steel was contracted to engineer, fabricate and install the framework of the Big Nickel.

Big and Ugly Rendering Project ( BURP ) is a non-commercial distributed computing project using the BOINC framework.

General relativity is also part of the framework of the standard Big Bang model of cosmology.

Criticisms have centered on whether the construct is a real intelligence and whether it has incremental validity over IQ and the Big Five personality dimensions.

As expected, TEIQue scores were positively related to some of the Big Five personality traits ( extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness ) as well as inversely related to others ( alexithymia, neuroticism ).

Jiles Perry " J. P ." Richardson, Jr. ( October 24, 1930 – February 3, 1959 ) also commonly known as The Big Bopper, was an American disc jockey, singer, and songwriter whose big voice and exuberant personality made him an early rock and roll star.

Edwin " Big Ed " Wilkes ( 1931 – 1998 ), a radio personality in Lubbock, Texas, was born in Blue Mountain but moved to Lubbock with his family in 1942.

Other temperament systems include those based upon theories of adult temperament ( e. g. Gray and Martin's Temperament Assessment Battery for Children ), or adult personality ( e. g. the Big Five personality traits ).

* Film critic and G4 personality Chris Gore was born in Big Rapids.

# focus on a small set of individual attributes such as Big Five personality traits, to the neglect of cognitive abilities, motives, values, social skills, expertise, and problem-solving skills ;

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.

The Big Five, or Five Factor Model of normal personality, has gained acceptance since the early 1990s when some influential meta-analyses ( e. g., Barrick & Mount 1991 ) found consistent relationships between the Big Five personality factors and important criterion variables.

Although he may be best known today as the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand, he became a national television personality starting in 1957, rising to fame for his 1961 country crossover hit " Big Bad John " and his television series, The Jimmy Dean Show, which also gave puppeteer Jim Henson his first national media exposure.

* Big Five personality traits, a theoretical construct which describes human personality as organized along five dimensions or factors

" Although Big Bob is far more boorish in personality, he and Helga share some similarities that occasionally bond them.

The later Big Finish Productions audio play Terror Firma contradicted this and also gave an alternate account of what Davros did after the events of this story ( Although it should be noted that Terra Firma features Davros suffering from multiple personality disorder that may affect his memory ).

* Jolanta Rutowicz ( born 1984 ), TV personality, winner of Big Brother ( Poland )

Omar Bongo, Africa's " little Big Man ", described as " a diminutive, dapper figure who conversed in flawless French, a charismatic figure surrounded by a personality cult ", was one of the last of the African " Big Man " rulers.