MAKE AMERICA GREAT?

Revivalist Nationalism since World War II: From “Wake up, America!” to “Make America Great Again”

Between 1945 and 1980, evangelicals emerged as a key political constituency in American politics, helping to form the Religious Right and work for the election of Ronald Reagan and other conservative Republicans. This article argues that they embraced a distinctive type of revivalist nationalism, centered around the mass revival. Case studies of Billy Graham, Bill Bright, Jerry Falwell, and Ron...

America ' s Great Lost Expedition

Until recently the largest and single most significant collection of Hopi Indian art lay buried amidst the dusty recesses of the Peabody Museum. The "Thomas V . Kearn Collection of Hopi Material Culture ," consisting of approximately 4,500 ethnographic objects ranging from prehistoric pots, baskets, and textile fragments to nineteenthcentury wooden tablitas and ceremonial art , was acquired thr...

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Make Your Bone Great Again : A study on Osteoporosis Classification

Osteoporosis can be identified by looking at 2D x-ray images of the bone. The high degree of similarity between images of a healthy bone and a diseased one makes classification a challenge. A good bone texture characterization technique is essential for identifying osteoporosis cases. Standard texture feature extraction techniques like Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Gray Level Cooccurrence Matrix ...

Axon degeneration: make the Schwann cell great again

Axonal degeneration is a pivotal feature of many neurodegenerative conditions and substantially accounts for neurological morbidity. A widely used experimental model to study the mechanisms of axonal degeneration is Wallerian degeneration (WD), which occurs after acute axonal injury. In the peripheral nervous system (PNS), WD is characterized by swift dismantling and clearance of injured axons ...