That's why Windows 8 opens in the start screen, why Microsoft is working to build up a large catalog of tablet-type apps that run only in the start screen, and why the traditional desktop has been relegated to a mode you reach by clicking on an icon on the start screen.
Rahmsdorf points to a paper written by colleagues of his that used measures of how sediments build up in salt marshes in North Carolina and surveys of what type of microscopic shells could be found in them.
Currently, U.S. utilities are seeking permission to build about a dozen of the AP1000 reactors, far more than any other reactor typein the U.S. Nearly a dozen projects that had contemplated using designs developed by competing firms, such as General Electric Co.
For the second type of entrepreneur, Spanos advises them to build a prototype and test it out on potential customers in order to determine whether the initial hypothesis about the opportunity is right or should be changed.