The analysis of chessboard pebbling by Andrew Odlyzko is strengthened and generalized, rst to higher dimension and then to arbitrary posets. 1 The pebbling game The pebbling game of Kontsevich is played on the grid points of the rst quadrant. One starts with a single pebble on the origin and a move consists of replacing any pebble with two pebbles, one above and one to the right of the vanishin...

The title compound, [Sr(C(14)H(20)O(5))(2)](I(3))(2), obtained by slow evaporation of an ethanol/dichloro-methane solution (1:1) of SrCl(2), benzo-15-crown-5 and I(2), is built of sandwich-like [Sr(benzo-15-crown-5)(2)](2+) cations and isolated linear I(3) (-) anions which are arranged in alternating layers parallel to (010). The triiodide anions are located in general positions, whereas the ca...

We introduce a new Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler called the Markov Interacting Importance Sampler (MIIS). The MIIS sampler uses conditional importance sampling (IS) approximations to jointly sample the current state of the Markov Chain and estimate conditional expectations, possibly by incorporating a full range of variance reduction techniques. We compute Rao-Blackwellized estimates ...

Circulating lipoproteins may offer interesting properties as therapeutic carriers for cytokines and hormones, in terms of both stability and bio-distribution. The fusion of apolipoprotein A-I with interleukin-15 (IL-15) targets the latter to high-density lipoproteins (HDLs). The bioactivity of this chimera can be further enhanced by creating triple fusions with IL-15 receptor α domain involved ...

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Global Journal of Health Science, Vol. 15, No. 5, 2023.