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    Measurement of the effective weak mixing angle at the CEPC

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    We present a study of the measurement of the effective weak mixing angle parameter (\sin^2\theta_{\text{eff}}^{\text{\ell}}) at the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC). As a fundamental physics parameter, \sin^2\theta_{\text{eff}}^{\text{\ell}} plays a key role not only in the global test of the standard model electroweak sector, but also in constraining the potential beyond standard model new physics at high energy frontier. CEPC proposes a two year running period around the ZZ boson mass pole at high instantaneous luminosity. It is demonstrated that with one month data taken, the uncertainty of \sin^2\theta_{\text{eff}}^{\text{\ell}} at ZZ pole can be reduced to 0.00001 both in the lepton and heavy quark final states, which is much smaller than the theoretical uncertainty of the calculation with two-loop radiative corrections. It will not only improve the precision with respect to the measurements from previous colliders including the LEP, SLC, Tevatron and LHC, but also provide direct comparison between different final states. In this paper, we also study the measurement of \sin^2\theta_{\text{eff}}^{\text{\ell}} at high mass region. With one month data taken, the precision of \sin^2\theta_{\text{eff}}^{\text{\ell}} measured at 130 GeV from bb quark final state is 0.00007, which will be an important experimental observation on the energy-running effect of \sin^2\theta_{\text{eff}}^{\text{\ell}}

    An Analysis of the Cause of Privacy Paradox among SNS Users: take Chinese College Students as an Example

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    It has been proved that the privacy paradox does exist, yet the cause of the phenomenon remains vague. This article tries to analyze the [Inserted: s]cause of privacy paradox phenomenon on SNS (WeChat) among Chinese college students based on Privacy Calculus Theory and the TPB model and introduces two new factors: the credibility of SNS and the cost of protecting privacy. Through a questionnaire and interview survey,[Inserted: a ] our result shows that there is no significant correlation between users’ privacy concerns and the intention of privacy disclosure. While the more users trust the SNS platform, the more possibility they tend to disclose their private information[Inserted: te], and the cost of privacy protection can somehow weaken the relationship between the intention and the actual behavior. Therefore, [Inserted: ship]by increasing SNS\u27s credibility, users tend to disclose more personal information to SNS providers, which may improve the competitiveness of SNSs and contribute to their sustainable development

    Case Report: Bronchial artery embolization and chemoradiotherapy for central squamous cell lung carcinoma with rapid regression

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    BackgroundInterventional embolization is a common treatment for hemoptysis, one of the complications of lung cancer. However, there are no official guidelines for the use of this method in antitumor therapy.Case DescriptionHerein, we describe a case of a patient who was pathologically diagnosed as central squamous cell lung cancer. The patient received chemotherapy, interventional embolization and radiotherapy successively. The tumor regressed rapidly within 48 hours of receipt of interventional embolization. Furthermore, the tumor decreased by more than 50% in size within 7 days during radiotherapy. Unfortunately, the patient has since developed lymph node metastases and remains under treatment.ConclusionsThus, finding the suitable blood vessel embolized may be a suitable option to reduce the local tumor load and can be considered as antitumor therapy in combination with other treatments. The patient’s theoretical hypoxia state after interventional therapy still produced a good tumor regression after radiotherapy. However, so far, no related studies have reported the changes of tumor immune microenvironment in human body after intervention and radiotherapy

    Exemplar-based Video Colorization with Long-term Spatiotemporal Dependency

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    Exemplar-based video colorization is an essential technique for applications like old movie restoration. Although recent methods perform well in still scenes or scenes with regular movement, they always lack robustness in moving scenes due to their weak ability in modeling long-term dependency both spatially and temporally, leading to color fading, color discontinuity or other artifacts. To solve this problem, we propose an exemplar-based video colorization framework with long-term spatiotemporal dependency. To enhance the long-term spatial dependency, a parallelized CNN-Transformer block and a double head non-local operation are designed. The proposed CNN-Transformer block can better incorporate long-term spatial dependency with local texture and structural features, and the double head non-local operation further leverages the performance of augmented feature. While for long-term temporal dependency enhancement, we further introduce the novel linkage subnet. The linkage subnet propagate motion information across adjacent frame blocks and help to maintain temporal continuity. Experiments demonstrate that our model outperforms recent state-of-the-art methods both quantitatively and qualitatively. Also, our model can generate more colorful, realistic and stabilized results, especially for scenes where objects change greatly and irregularly

    Association Between Social Integration and Health Among Internal Migrants in ZhongShan, China

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    Internal migrants are the individuals who migrate between regions in one country. The number of internal migrants were estimated at 245 million in China in 2013. Results were inconsistent in the literature about the relationship between their health statuses and social integration. The main difference exists on how to measure the social integration and whether health statuses of internal migrants improve with years of residence. To complement the existing literature, this study measured social integration more comprehensively and estimated the internal migrants\u27 health statuses with varying years of residence, and explored the associations between the migrants\u27 social integration and health. We used the data from 2014 Internal Migrant Dynamic Monitoring Survey of Health and Family Planning in ZhongShan, China. Health status was measured from four aspects: self-reported health, subjective well-being, perception of stress, mental health. We measured social integration through four dimensions: economy, social communication, acculturation, and self-identity. The analyses used multiple linear regressions to examine the associations between selfreported health, subjective well-being, and perception of stress, mental health and social integration. The analytical sample included 1,999 households of the internal migrants and 1,997 local registered households, who were permanent residents in ZhongShan. Among the internal migrants, Adults in the labor force, who were aged 25 to 44 years old, accounted for 91.2% of the internal migrant population, while 74.6% of the registered population were in that age group. Median residential time among migrants was 2.8 (1.3-6.2) years, and 20.2% of them were migrating in the same Guangdong province. Except for mental health, other health statuses among migrants had significant differences compared with local registered population, e. g. self-reported health was better, but subjective well-being was worse. However, these health measurements were improved with more years of residence. Moreover, our results show that two aspects of social integration, economic integration and selfidentity, were significantly associated with health status. Subjective feeling of relative social status levels were more associated with health, which prompted the attention to social fairness and the creation of a fair and respectful culture. More interventions could be experimented, such as encouraging internal migrants to participate in community activities more actively, educating local registered residents to treat internal migrants more equally, and developing self-identity among internal migrants. Better social, economic, and cultural environment can benefit internal migrants\u27 health statuses

    Measurement of the proton structure parameters in the forward-backward charge asymmetry

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    The forward-backward asymmetry (AFBA_{FB}) in the Drell-Yan process pp/ppˉZ/γ+pp/p\bar p \to Z/\gamma^* \to \ell^+\ell^- is sensitive to the proton structure information. Such information has been factorized into well-defined proton structure parameters which can be regarded as experimental observables. In this paper, we extract the structure parameters from the AFBA_{FB} distributions reported by the CMS collaboration in pppp collisions at s=8\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV, and by the D0 collaboration in ppˉp\bar p collisions at s=1.96\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV. It is the first time that the unique parton information in the AFBA_{FB} spectrum can be decoupled from the electroweak calculation and measured as standalone observables, which can be used as new data constraints in the global quantum chromodynamics analysis of the parton distribution functions (PDFs). Although the parton information in the pppp and ppˉp\bar p collisions are different, and the precisions of the measured structure parameters are statistically limited, the results from both the hadron colliders indicate that the down quark contribution might be higher than the theoretical predictions with the current PDFs at the relevant momentum fraction range
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