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SOLO Taxonomy: A Study Towards Improvement of EFL Essay Writing

VOLUME 22, 2025

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

VOLUME 6, 2023

Abdullah Nijr Alotaibi
Mohammad Alzu’bi

Abstract

This study investigates how the presence of different variables plays on a SOLO program implemented in the essay writing class of EFL learners. The program was devised keeping in mind the EFL curriculum and learners’ proficiency and implemented on an experimental group of sixty randomly selected EFL learners enrolled in English departments at two universities: Al-Balqa Applied University in Jordan and Majmaah University in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A control group was also included in the study to verify the effects of the intervention more lucidly. The latter received traditional instruction.  Writing performance of both the groups was compared using an independent sample t-test to examine statistical differences between the means of the two groups in pre-post-test models. Results indicated significant statistical differences in the performance of the two groups in favor of the experimental group. Based on the results of the study, the study makes pertinent recommendations.

Keywords : SOLO Strategy, Essay Writing, EFL, English writing.
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