現在の自動車の多くは，電気信号で操舵，駆動，制動を実現することが可能である．道路側に設置した認識・制御装置が認識・制御機能を担えば，自動車側には通信器のみを搭載することで安価に局所的な自動運転が可能である．本研究では，道路側からの誘導制御による自動運転のプロトタイプを構築し，体験者へのアンケートにより，その受容性を評価した．

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This study identifies factors that enhance the willingness to transition from Business unit-Managed IT Systems (BMIT) to IT departments-Managed IT Systems (IMIT) when utilizing SaaS within companies. When a business unit implements a BMIT without fully accounting for the characteristics of SaaS, initial costs (such as hardware) may decrease, but recurring costs (including maintenance and operational expenses) could increase dramatically, potentially leading to a significant rise in overall costs. This study constructs a hypothetical model from the perspective of Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and conducts a survey within IT departments to identify factors that drive willingness to migrate to IMIT. The analysis reveals a link between high ex-post transaction costs and a greater willingness to transition from BMIT to IMIT. Specifically, this study shows that unexpectedly high maladaptation costs are significantly a significant driver for this migration.

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The present study explores how an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) traced his teacher professional development through his narratives. Since 1987 when ALTs began to be hired for the first time in Japan, they have realized team-taught lessons with Japanese Teachers of English (JTE) in public junior and senior high schools. They take the roles of assistants in language classrooms in the schools. Their historical and cultural backgrounds vary: some have teaching experience in their native countries, and others start to teach as novice teachers. The points to be argued here are their constructive process of identity in the new context, and the trajectory of developing themselves as teachers. The first focus of this paper will be ALT’s construction of relationships with students through analysis of his first interview. Second, through the analysis, the second interview will reveal the fact that collegiality between ALT and JTE supported his teacher development. The qualitative analysis of an ALT’s oral narratives demonstrates his professional development, in which he experienced awareness of the collegiality fostered in his classroom and in his teaching life.

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China’s salient engagement in Myanmar’s peacemaking process has been accused of being a violation of the non-interference principle upon which both countries have firmly established their bilateral relations since 1954. Emerging from inside and outside Myanmar, this public accusation generated a disconnection between China’s actual role and principled engagement in which China’s strategic national interests and influence in Myanmar have been frequently overstated. By analyzing the role played by China in Myanmar’s peace negotiations (2011-2019) with the use of the Kachin peace-talks and peace-related issues over the Northern Ethnic Armed Organizations as examples, this paper raises the central question: How did China behave in Myanmar’s peace negotiations in conformity with its non-interference principle? Using evidence from media and interview data, this paper argues that China demonstrated a pragmatic balance in its adherence to the non-interference principle, based on its communication-facilitation strategy which amounts to being limited to the lowest range of influence/interference in the spheres of mutual interests. This is because of two significant reasons respectively from the Beijing government’s viewpoint and from the Naypyitaw government’s perspective. From the Chinese viewpoint, the potential role of the United States in Myanmar’s peace negotiations appeared to be a core threat to China’s national security and interests in the country. From the Naypyitaw government’s viewpoint, China’s communicating and facilitating role is normatively accepted as a positive hope for boosting its domestic policy-oriented agenda to some extent, and in addition almost all the conflicting parties have tolerated China’s involvement in order to reach a solution to their disputes.

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