Let ${(e_{\beta }:𝐐\to Y_{\beta })}_{\beta \in \mathbf{\text{Ord}}}$ be the large source of epimorphisms in the category $\mathbf{\text{Ury}}$ of Urysohn spaces constructed in [2]. A sink ${(g_{\beta }:Y_{\beta }\to X)}_{\beta \in \mathbf{\text{Ord}}}$ is called natural, if $g_{\beta }\circ e_{\beta }=g_{{\beta }^{\text{'}}}\circ e_{{\beta }^{\text{'}}}$ for all $\beta ,{\beta }^{\text{'}}\in \mathbf{\text{Ord}}$. In this paper natural sinks are characterized. As a result it is shown that $\mathbf{\text{Ury}}$ permits no $(Epi,ℳ)$-factorization structure for arbitrary (large) sources.

It is known that every remainder of a topological group is Lindelöf or pseudocompact. Motivated by this result, we study in this paper when a topological group $G$ has a normal remainder. In a previous paper we showed that under mild conditions on $G$, the Continuum Hypothesis implies that if the Čech-Stone remainder $G^{*}$ of $G$ is normal, then it is Lindelöf. Here we continue this line of investigation, mainly for the case of precompact groups. We show that no pseudocompact group, whose weight is uncountable...

J. Terasawa in "$\beta X-\left\{p\right\}$ are non-normal for non-discrete spaces $X$" (2007) and the author in “On non-normality points and metrizable crowded spaces” (2007), independently showed for any metrizable crowded space $X$ that each point $p$ of its Čech–Stone remainder $X^{*}$ is a non-normality point of $\beta X$. We introduce a new class of spaces, named nice spaces, which contains both of Sorgenfrey line and every metrizable crowded space. We obtain the result above for every nice space.