Citizens' Attitudes Towards Municipal Mergers – Individual‐level Explanations

Towards Understanding Geometry Explanations

Previous studies using our PACT Geometry Tutor have shown that students learn mathematics more deeply in the same amount of time if they are asked not only to make correct problem solving steps but also to explain those steps (Aleven, Koedinger, and Cross 1999). In the current tutor, students enter the name of a geometry definition or theorem to explain a step, but our goal is for them to state...

Towards Automating Explanations

This paper discusses an approach to the modelling of the explanation process within the framework of a graphics-based CAD system currently under development, which can describe its own use, including the common ways to make and recover from errors. With a coordinated textual and pictorial display, the system, CADHELP, simulates an expert demonstrating the operation of the graphical features of ...

Inclusive and Exclusive Concerns of National Identity as Determinants of French Citizens’ Attitudes Towards EU Integration

Municipal Mergers and the Change in Intra-Prefectural Migration

1. Purpose of the study Since 1995, the national government has repeatedly revised the Special Municipal Merger Law (so called (Kyu) Gappei Tokurei Ho). These revisions are aimed at promoting the consolidation of municipalities so that these municipalities could effectively cope with various local and regional issues, such as their financial crises and ongoing population aging (e.g. Sasaki 2004...

Differences of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards epilepsy between populations in municipal and nonmunicipal areas

BACKGROUND Information on the knowledge of, and attitudes and practices towards epilepsy of the general population in Thailand is still limited, particularly with respect to the differences between populations in municipal and nonmunicipal areas. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted in a sample population of 1,000, with 500 participants each from municipal and nonmunicip...