What is important really is what is happening at the micro level and this is lost via aggregation.

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Russia's main economic problems now are at the micro level, chiefly the way that corrupt and incompetent bureaucrats overlap with business.

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As he explained it, innovative projects often succeed at the micro level or within pilot environments but ultimately fail because they cannot be taken to scale.

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At the micro level, the migration of personally identifiable information and proprietary intellectual property online has influenced IPv6 protocol architects to bake additional security into the stack.

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Shareholders of individual companies want good news at the micro level, in addition to the macro level, and this where things could get a bit more troublesome.

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This offers designers a way to find out how, at a micro-level, the air is moving over body panels and exerting pressure on them.

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The next micro resistance level is 1391, then there is a bigger resistance zone at 1403-1408 that the bears might try to defend.

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They might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but at their most basic level these medical micro-robots are man-made protein "machines" that produce movement through chemical reactions.

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