First, a lack of competition within the market and the corresponding high cost of SI systems serve to restrain growth.

首先，合成仪器行业缺乏竞争和高昂的维护成本成为遏制市场增长的一个重要因素。

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Some free or low cost applications are designed to serve ads to users; others are designed to steal personal information from users or track their Internet browsing habits.

某些免费或低价的应用在设计上都会向用户推送广告：其他一些则会处心积虑盗窃用户的个人信息或跟踪其互联网浏览习惯。

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This is a sign of things to come over the next year as more companies look to uncover cost savings or serve customers more effectively through leveraging social technology.

这显示了将会在几年内发生的趋势，那就是越来越多的公司将利用社会媒体技术来促进成本节约或更有效地为客户提供服务。

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But newer manufacturing technologies, combined with a demand for low-cost chips to serve the high-volume consumer electronics market, have spurred chip makers to seek new ways to design their products.

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Through the project, it is expected that national authorities together with communities would be able to devise cost-effective tools and methodologies to inventory Intangible Cultural Heritage which may serve in the future as a model for nation-wide Intangible Cultural Heritage inventorying exercises.

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The second is that the most productive, cost-effective way for the federal government to advance this process is to serve as a catalyst for change by leveraging its distinctive capabilities to influence others in support of these reforms.

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