«Who is a person?» question with moral, theological and even legal consequences, but it seems now apparently entangled in intractable puzzles; therefore, has become frequent to suggest that we should entirely dispense the idea of «personhood». This essay argues notions «person», rational «nature» which are essential exploration, cannot be easily discarded from philosophical vocabulary either. T...

Young children with disabilities are significantly more likely to live in poverty than their peers without disabilities. Exposure to poverty creates additional risk of adverse outcomes for these vulnerable children. In this article, the following key circumstances contributing to this increased risk of impoverishment are analyzed: elevated costs of raising children with disabilities, low levels...

The main challenge with particle filtering is particle degeneracy and the accurate estimation cannot be achieved generally because of serious impoverishment problem, although resampling operation could solve degeneracy to a certain extent. In this paper, we propose an improved particle filtering approach based on biogeography-based optimization (BBO) algorithm, called BBO-PF, for state estimati...

In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the financing health in latin america vol 1 household spending and impoverishment book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other entertaining ...

We propose a nonlinear lter for estimating the trajectory of a random walk on a matrix Lie group with constant computational complexity. It is based on a nite-dimensional approximation of the conditional distribution of the state given past measurements via a set of fair samples, which are updated at each step and proven to be consistent with the updated conditional distribution. The algorithm ...

This paper combines differences-in-differences with propensity score matching to estimate the impacts of a health reform project in China that combined supply-side interventions aimed at improving the effectiveness and quality of care with demand-side measures aimed at expanding health insurance and providing financial support to the very poor. Data from household, village and facility surveys ...

The savanna, typically found in the sub-tropics and seasonal tropics, are the dominant vegetation biome type in the southern hemisphere, covering approximately 45% of the South America. In Brazil, the savanna, locally known as “cerrado,” is the most intensely stressed biome with both natural environmental pressures (e.g., the strong seasonality in weather, extreme soil nutrient impoverishment, ...

The discourse of individuals with fragile X syndrome has been described as fragmented, tangential, and associatively connected, resulting in autobiographical narratives that are incoherent and difficult to understand. In this article, the authors discuss the case of an adolescent female with moderate mental retardation due to fragile X syndrome. The analysis of her autobiographical stories, rat...