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To regard a woman as beautiful is a form of judgment that not only concerns the politics of gender and sexuality but also usually assumes a normative visual ability. This paper analyzes the Chinese film Blind Massage (directed by Lou Ye, 2014), in which blind masseurs' experience and understandings of sexual intimacy are influenced and manipulated by the normative image of female beauty. By examining its narrative and visuality, I reflect upon how the film critically represents and intervenes in the entanglement of beauty, sexuality, and disability. I argue that, on the one hand, the film helps to problematize and defamiliarize the social construction of normative sex. On the other hand, it effectively readjusts the social and cultural perception of peripheral embodiment.

Objective The objective of the present study is to explore the associations of health expenditures and cause-specific mortality among countries at different stages of economic development. Methodology Scatter plot and simple linear regression were used to estimate whether there was an association between health expenditures and cause-specific mortality. The statistical significance levels were set at p < 0.05. Mortalities due to all causes, and three specific causes of the global burden of disease (GBD) were used. The three kinds of cause-specific mortalities were: communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions (CMPN), non-communicable disease and injuries. Countries were grouped into four income groups according to the standard issued by World Bank in 2012. Result This study suggested general government expenditure on health, as a percentage of total government expenditure, was inversely associated with the three cause-specific mortalities, especially in high income group. Conclusion: This study showed an inverse association between healthcare expenditure and cause-specific mortalities. The Law of Health Transition has been once again evidenced. In developed countries, non-communicable diseases contributed to more deaths compared with mortality from communicable, maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions (CMPN). While in less-developed countries, they were facing higher mortalities; CMPN was still a major cause of death, especially among children. ; published_or_final_version ; Public Health ; Master ; Master of Public Health

Consumers' cognition of a number or numbers in prices as being lucky can affect their purchase intention. We carried out four experiments with 450 undergraduate students to investigate their purchase intention when buying products with price end numbers that they considered to be lucky
or unlucky. The results show that participants in the group that was offered the product with a lucky price end number had higher purchase intention when they experienced negative (vs. positive) emotions, were superstitious, felt they had lost control, or had experienced a significant event.
When they had experienced a significant event, that is, taking the College English Test Band 4, participants were more likely to avoid an unlucky price end number. Our findings indicate that retailers should consider the influence of lucky number pricing on consumers' choices when implementing
pricing strategies.

Zulqarnain Baloch,1,* Bilal Aslam,2,* Saima Muzammil,2 Mohsin Khurshid,3 Muhammad Hidayat Rasool,2 Ke Ma4 1College of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China; 2Department of Microbiology, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan; 3College of Allied Health Professionals, Directorate of Medical Sciences, Government College University Faisalabad, Faisalabad, Pakistan; 4College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China *These authors contributed equally to this work Abstract: Antibiotic therapy has a dual impact: wanted, in which it immediately inhibits the growth of bacteria and the unwanted, which is responsible for the evolution of antibiotic resistance. The dissociation of therapeutic effectiveness from the possible risk of the antibiotic resistance may be attained by taking the advantage of specific relations between these drugs, and the methods in which mutations associated with resistance against a specific antibiotic may modify these relations or it may increase the sensitivity of the bacterium to the other antibiotics. Although the practical implementation of this notion needs considerable advancement and confirmation that depends upon the improvements in the field of genomics and diagnostics, these interventions propose new paradigms, which may confine or inverse the evolution of antibiotic resistance. Keywords: antibiotic resistance, inversion, mutations, bacteria, evolution