Many new species pop up in the aftermath of mass extinctions, but not all mass extinctions cause a sea change: A new study finds that like often replaces like, and that only three of history's five big extinctions were drastic enough to give the newest--and often most complex and adaptable organisms--the foothold they needed to dominate the oceans.
As airstrikes in Yemen intensified on their second day Friday, Egypt and Saudi Arabia were considering an intervention on the ground, aimed at giving the president a secure foothold to return to the country, while backing Sunni tribesmen to fight against Shiite rebels and their allies, military officials said.
Guede, he added, could have used a nail found in the wall as a foothold to reach the window.
Today marks the beginning of the firm's three-day innovation conference, HighTower Apex: Foothold to the Future, in Chicago.
Despite the somewhat odd and overly defensive nature of Amazon's rebuttals, they, at the very least, captivated the media, entertained spectators, and gave the company a necessarily foothold to begin reclaiming its image.
Statoil executives know the company's long-term success rides on exploring the frontier regions in the Barents Sea, and they're counting on the project Ytredal manages, known as Snøhvit, to secure an Arctic foothold to establish the company as the preeminent player in the region.
These led to strand exchange (equivalent to junction migration), followed by loop opening, which allowed the controlled migration of the cargo from one foothold to another.
The league and its teams see the games as a foothold to sell jerseys, sponsorships and television deals in Europe and Asia, and potentially attract other foreign owners.
Leila Benali, an authority on Middle East oil at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, told the Times that "The bigger prize everybody is waiting for is development of the giant new fields," and that these initial contracts give the winning companies a "foothold" to vie for longer-term deals in Iraq.
How to plan the footholds refers to climbing path planning or grasp pose planning of a BiPCR, which is out of the scope of this paper.
