We conclude that land retirement programs and production subsidies have worked at cross purposes, destabilizing micro-level patterns of land use in recent decades, increasing levels of switching between cropland and grassland and reducing the size of remaining areas of native grassland in the U.S. Great Plains.
The latter refocuses our attention from the micro level to the patterns of management and provision of health care.
To date, the first level remains dominant, but the need arises for our attention to refocus now from the micro level to the patterns of managing and delivering care, managing the health care resources, and conducting business practices.
A mapping is detected between the specific nature of problem decompositions and research techniques at the micro level of knowledge bases, and patterns of structural evolution at the macro level of the industry network.
Other studies use aggregate data, which may hide patterns at the micro level.
Currently, to understand the retail market means to search for local patterns at the micro level, involving the segmentation, separation and profiling of diverse groups of consumers.
Gender helps establish and is established by micro-level politics: patterns of expectations; processes of everyday life; a socially constructed body; self and identity; desire; symbolic representation; interactions among friends, kin and strangers; and language and symbolism [ 20].
Considering that the role of each actor corresponds to specific behaviours, the current study contributes to the understanding of role-specific patterns of victimization on a micro level.
His hypothesis suggested that by addressing dysfunction at the micro level (i.e., personal discontent, frustration, anger), that larger patterns at higher levels would be affected in a positive manner.
The Creation of the British Atlantic World analyzes the interrelationship between these competing explanations for the development of the British Atlantic by examining migration patterns on both the macro and micro level.
But it is also true on a micro level.
