[Purpose] To examine the effects of lumbopelvic sling and abdominal drawing-in exercises on the lung capacities of healthy subjects. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-nine healthy subjects with no orthopedic history of the back were recruited. Subjects were randomly assigned to a experimental group and control group. Subjects were allocated to one of two groups; an experimental group that underwent...

We propose a general notion of capacity defined on any finite distributive lattice, encompassing usual capacities, bi-capacities, and their immediate extensions called k-ary capacities. We define key notions such as Möbius transform, derivative, Shapley value and Choquet integral.

We study invariants coming from certain optimisation problems for nef divisors on surfaces. These arise in work of the author and collaborators tying obstructions to embeddings between symplectic 4-manifolds questions positivity (possibly singular) algebraic develop general framework these prove foundational results their structure asymptotics. describe connections have embedded contact homolog...

We determine the asymptotics of the largest family of qualitatively 2{independent k{ partitions of an n{set, for every k > 2. We generalize a Sperner-type theorem for 2{partite sets of KK orner and Simonyi to the k{partite case. Both results have the feature that the corresponding trivial information-theoretic upper bound is tight. The results follow from a more general Sperner capacity theorem...

We introduce bi-capacities as a natural generalization of capacities (or fuzzy measures) through the identity of Choquet integral of binary alternatives with fuzzy measures. We examine the underlying structure and derive the Möbius transform of bi-capacities. Next, the Choquet and Sugeno integrals w.r.t bicapacities are introduced. It is shown that symmetric and asymmetric integrals are recover...