Particle filter is a probability estimation method based on Bayesian framework and it has unique advantage to describe the target tracking non-linear and non-Gaussian. In this study, firstly, analyses the particle degeneracy and sample impoverishment in particle filter multi-target tracking algorithm and secondly, it applies Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method to improve re-sampling process ...

A content analysis of the publications of Australian sociologists since 1960 addresses international debates over the ‘theoretical impoverishment’ of the sub-discipline of the sociology of health, illness and medicine. The results of the study offer a challenge to these concerns, pointing to a robust and constantly developing sub-field, well-integrated within the parent discipline, and characte...

Globally, traditional medicine has long been used to address relatively common illness, mental ill health and during childbirth and post-natal care. However, traditional medicine is primarily provided by the private sector and it is unclear how far expenditures on traditional medicine contribute to household impoverishment. A life history method was used to understand the health seeking experie...

during the last two decades there has been a growing interest in Particle Filtering (PF). However, PF suffers from two long-standing problems that are referred to as sample degeneracy and impoverishment. We are investigating methods that are particularly efficient at Particle Distribution Optimization (PDO) to fight sample degeneracy and impoverishment, with an emphasis on intelligence choices....

Particle filter algorithm is a filtering method which uses Monte Carlo idea within the framework of Bayesian estimation theory. It approximates the probability distribution by using particles and discrete random measure which is consisted of their weights, it updates new discrete random measure recursively according to the algorithm. When the sample is large enough, the discrete random measure ...

An integrity monitoring system is an inseparable part of global positioning system (GPS). According to the measurement noise feature of GPS receiver and the degeneracy phenomenon and alleviating the sample impoverishment problem in particle filter (PF). An approach to fault detection and isolation (FDI) for GPS receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) based on genetic resampling particle...

Despite a high burden of surgical disease, access to surgical services in low- and middle-income countries is often limited. In line with the World Health Organization's current focus on universal health coverage and equitable access to care, we examined how policies to expand access to surgery in rural Ethiopia would impact health, impoverishment and equity. An extended cost-effectiveness anal...