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A Short Drop or a Sudden Stop? Sanctions, Trade Shocks, and Firms’ Adjustment Margins: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/a-short-drop-or-a.html

Propaganda and Information Dissemination in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Natural Language Processing of Russian and Western Twitter Narratives
Zaur Gouliev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01807

Propaganda and Information Dissemination in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Natural Language Processing of Russian and Western Twitter Narratives
The conflict in Ukraine has been not only characterised by military engagement but also by a significant information war, with social media platforms like X, formerly known as Twitter playing an important role in shaping public perception. This article provides an analysis of tweets from propaganda accounts and trusted accounts collected from the onset of the war, February 2022 until the middle of May 2022 with n=40,000 total tweets. We utilise natural language processing and machine learning a…

Parametric Analysis of First High-Gain Vertical Fe-doped Ultrafast Ga2O3 Photoconductive Semiconductor Switch
N. Karpourazar, S. K. Mazumder, V. Jangir, K. M. Dowling, J. Leach, L. Voss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04911

Parametric Analysis of First High-Gain Vertical Fe-doped Ultrafast Ga2O3 Photoconductive Semiconductor Switch
We investigate, as part of a Lawrence-Livermore-National-Laboratory (LLNL) sponsored-research work initiated in February of 2021, the parametric performance analysis of ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) Fe-doped Ga2O3 photoconductive semiconductor switch (FG-PCSS) with embedded electrode. The detailed SILVACO based simulation of the FG-PCSS uses experimentally obtained lifetime, absorption coefficient, and mobility data. The key analysis results, demonstrated first to the sponsor LLNL in 2022, focus on…

And just to emphasize the point, we don’t use our car lightly.
We have gone on numerous road trips including from the Pacific to the Atlantic cross Canada in 2022. We have a hitch on the Kona that I use to pull a trailer for everthing from camping, to road trips, to hauling a yard of soil or rock.
We have certainly had some maintenance costs for the Kona. Some regular (brakes, after 150,000), checkups, 12V battery twice, etc. and some self inflicted (alignment and back shocks due to trailering). Visits to the dealer are your standard $500 to $2000 affair once a year. We have a second set of rims for the winter tires. We have bought 2 new sets of tires, one winter, one all season. The all seasons will be replaced after this summer.
The main battery was replaced under recall in February 2022 (before our road trip) at about 50,000km so we have a slightly newer battery than the car but not significantly, and we have not noticed any degradation in charge life.
On this day in 2022 we were visiting Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan just outside Saskatoon on our way back. We stopped to charge in Saskatoon, North Battleford, Lloydminster and Vegreville on the way to the West Edmonton Mall that day :)
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