Cultura

Piano Teaching Strategies from a Cross-Cultural Perspective: An Innovative Practice of Integrating Multicultural Elements

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

Jie Zhu
Longy School of Music of Bard College, UK

Abstract

In this day and age, music is being studied by more and more people as a way of spreading and carrying the arts, and the piano, in particular, has become the primary choice of extracurricular learning for most students. This paper analyzes the current situation of piano education as well as its characteristics, so as to draw the limitations of piano teaching. Secondly, it analyzes the diversified music to obtain the development process of diversified music. Finally, piano teaching strategies are improved based on cross-cultural perspectives so that students can learn about music from different cultures and regions. The analysis of the improved piano teaching strategy concludes that the improved approach enhances the students' academic performance, increasing the original average score from around 75 to 88, with a percentage increase of around 17.3%, and that the students have a high level of satisfaction with the teaching approach, in which 800 students are satisfied with the style of the teaching repertoire, whereas 750 students believe that the teaching strategy's techniques and theories are in line with the course progress, which It can reach about 7 points, which is relevant and can meet the students' needs.

Keywords : Piano Teaching; Diverse Music; Intercultural Perspective; Teaching Strategies; Repertoire Style.
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