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based early interventions that address 1) high-risk children, 2) the full range of risks, 3) vulnerable domains, and 4) protective factors.Based on the provincial panel data in China for 2001-2017, this article explores the impact of incoordination between land and population urbanization on environmental quality from the perspective of urban sprawl. Selumetinib mw It can be found that (1) Most provinces are suffering from the urban sprawl, land finance has made urban sprawl more serious. (2) The results of SDM show that the impact of urban sprawl on the CO2 emissions can be regarded as a N-shaped curve. Both excessively rapid expansion of urban space and excessively rapid growth of urban population can intensify the CO2 emissions. (3) The tests of regional heterogeneity show that in underdeveloped provinces, the effect of urban sprawl on CO2 emissions could also be a N-shaped curve, but it is an inversed U-shaped for the developed provinces. Thus, it can diminish the emissions of CO2 in developed provinces, through strengthening environmental regulations and restraining the excessively rapid growth of the urban population. However, the underdeveloped provinces should actively promote economic development and create more jobs to avoid the loss of labors. These conclusions are also applicable to the tests of regional heterogeneity based on total factor productivity.When seawater intrudes into a subterranean estuary, there is interaction between groundwater and surface water, and ocean tides and waves can influence the salt concentration distribution in subsurface of the estuary. However, numerical simulations of seawater intrusion into a subterranean estuary often neglect the atmosphere and surface water and simply specify hydrostatic pressure and a constant seawater salt concentration. This study examined the influence of fluid flow and pressure in a surface water-atmosphere system consisting of both atmosphere and surface water on the salt distribution in subsurface and in the surface water by a numerical simulation that couples fluid flows in the surface water-atmosphere system and groundwater. This study first confirmed the precision of the simulation method by comparing experimentally determined salt concentration distributions in silica beads unsaturated with water. This study then conducted an experiment in a two-dimensional tank filled with seawater and glass beubsurface are numerically simulated, the simulation system needs to include atmosphere and surface water to take account of the influence of fluid flow and fluid pressure in both the atmosphere and surface water on the fluid flow and transport of salt in a shallow subsurface.Activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are the major cell type involved in the deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) during the development of hepatic fibrosis. In this study, we revealed that left-right determination factor 2 (LEFTY2), one of the proteins belonging to the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) protein superfamily, was remarkedly decreased in human hepatic fibrosis tissues and in a carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced liver fibrosis mouse model. In addition, TGF-β1 treatment markedly reduced the level of LEFTY2 in HSCs. Importantly, overexpression of LEFTY2 suppressed the activation and proliferation of HSCs. LEFTY2 inhibited the expression of TGF-β1-induced fibrosis-associated genes (α-SMA and COL1a1) in human (LX-2) and rat (HSC-T6) HSC cell lines in vitro. Mechanistically, we demonstrated, for the first time, the role of LEFTY2 in inhibiting TGF-β1/Smad3 signaling, suggesting that there is a mutual antagonism between LEFTY2 and TGF-β1/Smad3 signaling during liver fibrosis. Similarly, we observed that LEFTY2 has a negative effect on its downstream genes, including c-MYC, CDK4, and cyclin D1, in liver fibrosis. Collectively, our data strongly indicated that LEFTY2 plays an important role in controlling the proliferation and activation of HSCs in the progression of liver