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 ".

Since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the term " Big Brother " has entered the lexicon as a synonym for abuse of government power, particularly in respect to civil liberties, often specifically related to mass surveillance.

Evidence from Big Bang nucleosynthesis, the cosmic microwave background and structure formation suggests that about 23 % of the mass of the universe consists of non-baryonic dark matter, whereas only 4 % consists of visible, baryonic matter.

The lightest of the chemical elements are hydrogen and helium, both created by Big Bang nucleosynthesis during the first 20 minutes of the universe in a ratio of around 3: 1 by mass ( approximately 12: 1 by number of atoms ).

A petition he has been circulating via Heather Duke, to get the band Big Fun to perform on campus was actually a disguised mass suicide note.

Golden age hip hop ( cited as either just the late ' 80s or the late 80s to early 90s ) was the time period where hip-hop lyricism went through its most drastic transformation – writer William Jelani Cobb says " in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time " and Allmusic writes, " rhymers like PE's Chuck D, Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, and Rakim basically invented the complex wordplay and lyrical kung-fu of later hip-hop ”.

Such a large mass is too large to have accumulated since the Big Bang using current models and may indicate that gravity falls off slower than inverse-squared at certain distance scales.

Without major changes to the Big Bang theory itself, BBN will result in mass abundances of about 75 % of H-1, about 25 % helium-4, about 0. 01 % of deuterium, trace ( on the order of 10 < sup >− 10 </ sup >) amounts of lithium and beryllium, and no other heavy elements.

During the 1970s, there was a major puzzle in that the density of baryons as calculated by Big Bang nucleosynthesis was much less than the observed mass of the universe based on calculations of the expansion rate.

Big Bang nucleosynthesis predicts a primordial abundance of about 25 % helium-4 by mass, irrespective of the initial conditions of the universe.

The Big Bang itself had been proposed in 1931, long before this period, by Georges Lemaître, a Belgian physicist and Roman Catholic priest, who suggested that the evident expansion of the Universe in forward time required that the Universe contracted backwards in time, and would continue to do so until it could contract no further, bringing all the mass of the Universe into a single point, a " primeval atom ", at a point in time before which time and space did not exist.

Although < sup > 4 </ sup > He continues to be produced by other mechanisms ( such as stellar fusion and alpha decay ) and trace amounts of < sup > 1 </ sup > H continue to be produced by spallation and certain types of radioactive decay ( proton emission and neutron emission ), most of the mass of these isotopes in the universe, and all but the insignificant traces of the < sup > 3 </ sup > He and deuterium in the universe produced by rare processes such as cluster decay, are thought to have been produced in the Big Bang.

Once the notion that the universe started with a rapid inflation nicknamed the Big Bang became accepted by the majority of scientists, the ultimate fate of the universe became a valid cosmological question, one depending upon the physical properties of the mass / energy in the universe, its average density, and the rate of expansion.

Jeffrey Herf maintains that Goebbels and the Nazis used the Big Lie to turn long-standing anti-semitism into mass murder.

Lean game meat, such as cooked wild rabbit, is more energy-dense ( up to 1. 7 calories per gram ), but it does not constitute the bulk of the diet by mass / volume at the recommended plant / animal ratios, and it does not reach the densities of many processed foods commonly consumed by modern humans: most McDonalds sandwiches such as the Big Mac average 2. 4 to 2. 8 calories / gram,

In a dark webcomic called " Everafter ," the Big Bad Wolf is the name given to a sentient and polymorphous mass of " Grimm " energy that roams the island on which the story's asylum is built — aptly so because of the creature's notable likeness to a gigantic black wolf, which can morph into a whole pack of identical wolves.

38 Studios and its subsidiary, Big Huge Games, then laid off their staffs with a mass email.

Big Dumb Boosters ( BDB ) are a general class of launch vehicle built around the idea that it is cheaper to mass produce and operate large, strong, heavy rockets of simple design than it is to build a few smaller, lighter, more cleverly designed ones.

For example, some of the mass extinction events generally referred to as the “ Big Five ” have coincided with large scale such as the Earth entering an ice age, or alternate warming events.

Current cosmological models maintain that 13. 7 billion years ago, the entire mass of the universe was compressed into a gravitational singularity, the so-called cosmic egg, from which it expanded to its current state ( following the Big Bang ).

The remainder of Lazarsfeld and Merton ’ s paper discusses structure of ownership and operation of the mass media specific to the U. S .— especially the fact that in the case of magazines, newspapers, and radio advertising ‘ supports the enterprise ’: ‘ Big business finances the production and distribution of mass media … he who pays the piper generally calls the tune ’.

The show is based on a group of strangers, known as housemates, living together twenty-four hours a day in the " Big Brother " house, isolated from the outside world ( primarily from mass media, such as newspapers, telephones, television and the internet ) while having all their steps followed by cameras around-the-clock, with no privacy for three months.

Voids are believed to have been formed by baryon acoustic oscillations in the Big Bang by collapses of mass followed by implosions of the compressed baryonic matter.

However, skeptics of mass surveillance conspiracism caution that such concerns should be disentangled from secular paranoia about Big Brother or religious hysteria about the Antichrist.

At one unit of Planck time after the Big Bang, the mass density of the universe is thought to have been approximately one unit of Planck density.