The 1991 NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) revised lifting equation’s objective is to prevent or reduce lifting-related injuries, especially of the low back. However, the lifting equation is only applicable to two-handed lifting tasks. Oneand twohanded repetitive lifting tasks are a consistent part of many occupations. Understanding the metabolic demands of oneand tw...

It is shown that a complex normal projective variety has non-positive Kodaira dimension if it admits a non-isomorphic quasi-polarized endomorphism. The geometric structure of the variety is described by methods of equivariant lifting and fibrations. Endomorphisms of the projective spaces are also discussed and some results on invariant subvarieties under the pullback of the endomorphism are obt...

Reversible integer wavelet transforms are increasingly popular in lossless image compression, as evidenced by their use in the recently developed JPEG2000 image coding standard 1]. In this paper, a projection technique is described that exploits non-orthogonality among transform basis vectors to derive nal lifting steps for wavelet transforms. Additionally , projection-based predictions of deta...

(1b) Question. For which pairs (C0,H) does a lift exist? Note that the lifting problem for C0 is formally smooth. However we will see that in general the lifting problem for (C0,H) can be obstructed; in some cases a lifting does not exist, in several cases ramification in R is needed to make a lifting possible. In order to have a positive answer to this question it suffices to consider the case...