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The downgrading of projects at the closing from moderately satisfactory to moderately unsatisfactory has been a persistent problem in the World Bank and a particular problem in the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific region since 2012. Through analysis of the projects that exited the East Asia and Pacific region's portfolio in fiscal years 2012 and 2013, this paper derives a prediction model based on ratings for implementation progress and achievement of development objectives during project supervision. The model, used in combination with other indicators of project progress toward outcomes, appears to improve on existing methods for assessing the downgrade risk.

Development Achievement --- Governance --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Prediction Model --- Public Sector Development

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Azoospermia, defined as the absence of sperm in the ejaculate after examination of the centrifuged specimens, affects about 1% of the male population and 10–15% of infertile men. In about two-thirds of cases, this is caused by severe spermatogenic dysfunction, and it is commonly termed “nonobstructive azoospermia” (NOA) to differentiate it from the less severe form of azoospermia caused by the obstruction of the seminal tract (obstructive azoospermia—OA), the latter affecting the remaining one-third of cases. Managing patients with NOA is challenging due to the severity of spermatogenic dysfunction and the lack of medical treatments, with surgical retrieval of testicular sperm being the only way of enabling some of these patients to father their own biological children. In-depth clinical knowledge is key for supporting clinical reasoning and decision making when counselling patients with NOA, and surgical skill is required to maximize the outcome of surgical procedures that aim to retrieve testicular sperm. The present book is a collection of scientific papers published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine, authored by some of the most influential researchers in the field. The Special Issue, and thus also this book, were conceived to provide early career reproductive urologists and endocrinologists with an update of the scientific evidence in the field, together with surgical tips.

Medicine --- Pharmacology --- nonobstructive azoospermia --- micro-TESE --- FSH treatment --- hormonal treatment --- testosterone level --- microdissection testicular sperm extraction --- non-obstructive azoospermia --- management --- infertility --- intracytoplasmic sperm injection --- testicular azoospermia --- sperm selection --- sperm --- cryopreservation --- in vitro maturation --- azoospermia --- diagnosis --- male infertility --- spermatogenic failure --- testis biopsy --- sperm retrieval --- genetic testing --- endocrine evaluation --- review --- hypogonadism --- Sertoli cell-only syndrome --- testicular spermatozoa --- processing --- microfluidics --- new technologies --- genetics --- exome --- WES --- Y chromosome --- cancer --- NOA --- genes --- general health --- ICSI --- offspring health --- microTESE --- prediction model --- nonobstructive azoospermia --- micro-TESE --- FSH treatment --- hormonal treatment --- testosterone level --- microdissection testicular sperm extraction --- non-obstructive azoospermia --- management --- infertility --- intracytoplasmic sperm injection --- testicular azoospermia --- sperm selection --- sperm --- cryopreservation --- in vitro maturation --- azoospermia --- diagnosis --- male infertility --- spermatogenic failure --- testis biopsy --- sperm retrieval --- genetic testing --- endocrine evaluation --- review --- hypogonadism --- Sertoli cell-only syndrome --- testicular spermatozoa --- processing --- microfluidics --- new technologies --- genetics --- exome --- WES --- Y chromosome --- cancer --- NOA --- genes --- general health --- ICSI --- offspring health --- microTESE --- prediction model

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Electronic engineering and design innovation are both academic and practical engineering fields that involve systematic technological materialization through scientific principles and engineering designs. Technological innovation via electronic engineering includes electrical circuits and devices, computer science and engineering, communications and information processing, and electrical engineering communications. The Special Issue selected excellent papers presented at the International Conference on Knowledge Innovation and Invention 2018 (IEEE ICKII 2018) on the topic of electronics and their applications. This conference was held on Jeju Island, South Korea, 23–27 July 2018, and it provided a unified communication platform for researchers from all over the world. The main goal of this Special Issue titled “Selected papers from IEEE ICKII 2018” is to discover new scientific knowledge relevant to the topic of electronics and their applications.

n/a --- bandpass filter --- total harmonic distortion (THD) --- long short term memory (LSTM) --- integrated passive device --- intertwined spiral inductor --- global navigation satellite system (GNSS) --- hardware in the loop (HIL) --- interdigital capacitor --- inertial navigation system (INS) --- finite-time convergence control (FTCC) --- digital speckle correlation measurement method --- discrete grey prediction model (DGPM) --- interior permanent magnet synchronous motor --- fuzzy logic --- full pixel search algorithm --- maximum torque per voltage (MTPV) --- spiral capacitor --- gated recurrent unit (GRU) --- chattering --- microelectronics system (MEMS) --- field weakening --- maximum torque per ampere (MTPA) --- hardware implementation --- AC power supply

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Data science is an emerging multidisciplinary field which lies at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and mathematics, with different applications and related to data mining, deep learning, and big data. This Special Issue on “Principles and Applications of Data Science” focuses on the latest developments in the theories, techniques, and applications of data science. The topics include data cleansing, data mining, machine learning, deep learning, and the applications of medical and healthcare, as well as social media.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- deep learning --- user preference learning --- feature fusion --- similar user recommendation --- convolutional neural network --- image classification --- electronic health records --- fair exchange --- forward secrecy --- raw material --- mining --- terminology --- dictionary --- terminology application --- mobile application --- digitization --- lexical data --- corpus data --- linguistic linked open data --- neuro-fuzzy --- prediction model --- air pollution --- PM2.5 --- PM10 --- self-attention mechanism --- graph neural network --- data mining --- behaviour sequence pattern --- behaviour network --- water crystal --- fine-tuning --- supervised --- classification --- combined classification model --- deep transfer learning --- focal-segmental --- kidney disease --- kidney glomeruli --- medical image --- sclerosed glomeruli --- predictive analytics --- Internet of Things --- peasant farming --- smart farming system --- crop production prediction

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Data science is an emerging multidisciplinary field which lies at the intersection of computer science, statistics, and mathematics, with different applications and related to data mining, deep learning, and big data. This Special Issue on “Principles and Applications of Data Science” focuses on the latest developments in the theories, techniques, and applications of data science. The topics include data cleansing, data mining, machine learning, deep learning, and the applications of medical and healthcare, as well as social media.

deep learning --- user preference learning --- feature fusion --- similar user recommendation --- convolutional neural network --- image classification --- electronic health records --- fair exchange --- forward secrecy --- raw material --- mining --- terminology --- dictionary --- terminology application --- mobile application --- digitization --- lexical data --- corpus data --- linguistic linked open data --- neuro-fuzzy --- prediction model --- air pollution --- PM2.5 --- PM10 --- self-attention mechanism --- graph neural network --- data mining --- behaviour sequence pattern --- behaviour network --- water crystal --- fine-tuning --- supervised --- classification --- combined classification model --- deep transfer learning --- focal-segmental --- kidney disease --- kidney glomeruli --- medical image --- sclerosed glomeruli --- predictive analytics --- Internet of Things --- peasant farming --- smart farming system --- crop production prediction