Cultura

Study on the Effects of Commemorative Report on National Identity: The Discourse Construction and Identity Effect of Report on the Reunification of Hong Kong (1998-2022)

VOLUME 21, 2024

The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review

VOLUME 6, 2023

Tang Jiayi
Institute of Guangdong, HongKong and Macao Development Studies, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, 510275
Li Chunfeng
School of Journalism and Communication, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, 510632

Abstract

This article analyzes 689 news reports published in Chinese local newspapers from 1998 to 2022 on the commemorative reports of Hong Kong's Reunification. The article explores how Chinese local newspapers in Hong Kong construct a unified collective memory through commemorative reports on reunification, thus influencing the national identity of Hong Kong society. The research finds that newspapers in Hong Kong with different political backgrounds have relatively fixed political stances. Therefore, the audience's political awareness are relatively stable.The Hong Kong public may consolidate their original stance on political identity under the influence of the commemorative report on the Reunification and the constructed collective memory constructed, such as nationalism, localism, and separatism. Compared with the relatively direct ideological tendency on the political identity, the framework selection and discourse expression of Hong Kong newspapers with different positions on the Reunification are more indirect and obscure on the cultural identity.

Keywords : commemorative report; collective memory; media discourse; the Reunification of Hong Kong; national identity.
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.

Abstract

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords : Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty