The development of conversational ITSs such as DeepTutor is driven by explanation-based constructivist theories of learning and the collaborative constructive activities that occur during human tutoring (Rus et al. 2013).
But these seem to be separable: a background theory could comprise a number of partial wiring diagrams arrived at by piecemeal investigation, nor does it have to be driven by a desire for explanation in terms of kinds participating in laws.
The chlamydial gene distribution and protein tree topologies provide evidence for both endosymbiotic gene transfer and a horizontal gene transfer ratchet driven by recurrent endoparasitism as explanations for gene origin.
Sebba's narrative is increasingly driven by her search for an explanation as to why some of these women chose to risk their lives and resist when they, like so many fellow Parisennes, could have saved their skins.
This disagreement is conventionally understood to be driven by diverging approaches to the explanation of intentional action.
However, even though rapid diversification driven by ecological evolution is plausible explanation considering the diversity of Caribbean habitats, niche saturation and island size may have imposed diversification limits [ 38] which could have restricted the diversity and geographical distribution of Calisto.
To date, much of the work on mechanistic explanation has been driven by the goal of providing a descriptively and normatively adequate theory of mechanistic explanation.
Dr. Coxeter, whose childhood fascination with symmetry led to his career in mathematics, was driven by the idea that beautiful explanations exist for all puzzles.
By contrast, if the effect is driven by an intuition that biological explanations are tied to immutability and hence essentialism, it might arise much earlier in development.
A novel analysis of dynamics on a bistable energy landscape provides a simple explanation: an elasticity driven by the entropy, and friction by a barrier-controlled hopping time of populations between states, which is surprisingly distinct to the well-known relaxation time.
You can quibble with the great-man theory of history for other reasons -- Tolstoy denounced it in "War and Peace" for giving a false explanation for events driven by much larger forces -- but Ellis's knack for bringing historical figures to life seems so natural you can't imagine him doing anything else.
