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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr

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In the morning, my working day usually began with a lecture to students at the university, and in the afternoon, I spent teaching classes at the college. I wanted to take my wife to Moldova, but she refused. Before the war, every day of my life was filled with things related to my professional activities.

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

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The move simultaneously looped in Moldova. Romas Švedas, Vilnius University In a December 2021 newspaper commentary , Jermalavi?ius On Wednesday they made it happen, closing breakers along Ukraine’s southern border and synchronizing its power system with the 50-hertz electromagnetic wave traversing ENTSO-E’s wires.

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UCR researchers discover new method to dissipate heat in electronic devices; modulating the flow of phonons

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An international team of scientists led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside has modified the energy spectrum of acoustic phonons—elemental excitations, also referred to as quasi-particles, that spread heat through crystalline materials like a wave—by confining them to nanometer-scale semiconductor structures.

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