In this paper we make use of the Pol-Šapirovskii technique to prove three cardinal inequalities. The first two results are due to Fedeli [2] and the third theorem of this paper is a common generalization to: (a) (Arhangel’skii [1]) If $X$ is a $T_1$ space such that (i) $L\left(X\right)t\left(X\right)\le \kappa$, (ii) $\psi \left(X\right)\le 2^{\kappa }$, and (iii) for all $A\in {\left[X\right]}^{\le 2^{\kappa }}$, $\left|\overline{A}\right|\le 2^{\kappa }$, then $\left|X\right|\le 2^{\kappa }$; and (b) (Fedeli [2]) If $X$ is a $T_2$-space then $\left|X\right|\le 2^{aql\left(X\right)t\left(X\right){\psi }_c\left(X\right)}$.

This work presents some cardinal inequalities in which appears the closed pseudo-character, ${\psi }_c$, of a space. Using one of them — ${\psi }_c\left(X\right)\le 2^{d\left(X\right)}$ for $T_2$ spaces — we improve, from $T_3$ to $T_2$ spaces, the well-known result that initially $\kappa$-compact $T_3$ spaces are $\lambda$-bounded for all cardinals $\lambda$ such that $2^{\lambda }\le \kappa$. And then, using an idea of A. Dow, we prove that initially $\kappa$-compact $T_2$ spaces are in fact compact for $\kappa =2^{F\left(X\right)}$, $2^{s\left(X\right)}$, $2^{t\left(X\right)}$, $2^{\chi \left(X\right)}$, $2^{{\psi }_c\left(X\right)}$ or $\kappa =max\{{\tau }^{+},{\tau }^{<\tau }\}$, where $\tau >t(p,X)$ for all $p\in X$.

If $X$ is a space, then the $we\left(X\right)$ of $X$ is the cardinal $min\{\alpha :$ If $𝒰$ is an open cover of $X$, then there exists $A\subseteq X$ such that $\left|A\right|=\alpha$ and $St(A,𝒰)=X\}$. In this note, we show that if $X$ is a normal space such that $\left|X\right|=𝔠$ and $we\left(X\right)=\omega$, then $X$ does not have a closed discrete subset of cardinality $𝔠$. We show that this result cannot be strengthened in ZFC to get that the extent of $X$ is smaller than $𝔠$, even if the condition that $we\left(X\right)=\omega$ is replaced by the stronger condition that $X$ is separable.