Chalmers Johnson's MITI and the Japanese Miracle, more than any other single work, focused American attention and debate on the role of the Japanese developmental state in creating the post war "economic miracle." Johnson's orientation emphasized the continuity between pre and post war policy development in the formation of Japanese industrial policy. This paper is based on complementary resear...

Miracles have been a perennial source of interest to medieval historians, and in recent years the level of interest has only increased as scholars from a growing range of disciplines have discovered the value of miracle stories as a source for their studies. This diversity of interest is reflected in this volume (developed from a conference held in Cambridge in 2011), which includes historical,...

Video feedforward is a solution-focused intervention used to improve desired behaviour. We present two case studies of using video feedforward in reactive attachment disorder. Children with reactive attachment disorder, their caregivers and their clinician completed storyboards of behaviours desired during a 'miracle day' and filmed the individual scenes. These scenes were edited to a prolonged...

This paper presents the approaches used by the MIRACLE team to image retrieval at ImageCLEF 2005. Text-based and content-based techniques have been tested, along with combination of both types of methods to improve image retrieval. The text-based experiments defined this year try to use semantic information sources, like thesaurus with semantic data or text structure. On the other hand, content...

This paper describes the participation of the MIRACLE team at the ImageCLEF Photographic Retrieval task of CLEF 2008. We succeeded in submitting 41 runs. Obtained results from text-based retrieval are better than content-based as previous experiments in the MIRACLE team campaigns [5, 6] using different software. Our main aim was to experiment with several merging approaches to fuse text-based r...

For MIRACLE participation on WebClef 2005, a set of independent indexes was constructed for each top level domain of the EuroGOV collection. Each of these indexes contains information extracted from the document, like URL, title, keywords, detected named entities or HTML headers. These indexes are queried to obtain partial document rankings, which are combined with various relative weights to t...

Japan is now one of the leading industrial capitalist countries in the world. It is widely held to be an economic miracle, emerging twice to dominate Asia. Yet this miracle has been achieved without leading to those two banes of almost all other advanced industrial societies, high and rising crime rates and an epidemic of civil litigation. If, as Haley suggests, 'Japan's success in reducing cri...