Climate change, agriculture and international migration: An African youth perspective

Existing evidence indicates that Africa is already being affected by climate change resulting in substantial challenges for both human and natural systems. Eastern Africa is among the regions in Africa with disproportionately higher risk of adverse consequences of global warming and climate change. Climate change and variability are having significant direct and indirect impacts on agricultural production, agricultural value chains, food and nutrition security as well as the overall sustainable growth of the sector in the region. Over time, it is expected that climate change will exacerbate the prevalence of spatio-temporal climate variability in Eastern Africa, and these variabilities will manifest in the increased frequency and severity of extreme climate events and the increasing irregularity and unpredictability of weather patterns. To the region’s farmers, these emerging changes represent an additional source of risks and uncertainty

Feedback noncausal model predictive control of wave energy converters

In this paper, a novel feedback noncausal model predictive control (MPC) strategy for sea wave energy converters (WECs) is proposed, where the wave prediction information can be explicitly incorporated into the MPC strategy to improve the WEC control performance. The main novelties of the MPC strategy proposed in this paper include: (i) the recursive feasibility and robust constraints satisfaction are guaranteed without a significant increase in the computational burden; (ii) the information of short-term wave prediction is incorporated into the feedback noncausal MPC method to maximise the potential energy output; (iii) the sea condition for the WEC to safely operate in can be explicitly calculated. The proposed feedback noncausal MPC algorithm can also be extended to a wide class of control design problems, especially to the energy maximisation problems with constraints to be satisfied and subject to persistent but predictable disturbances. Numerical simulations are provided to show the efficacy of the proposed feedback noncausal MPC

Auf der schiefen Bahn: Die deutsche Lohnpolitik verschärft die Krise

Die Wachstumsschwäche der deutschen Wirtschaft fordert Erklärungsansätze heraus. Während viele Ökonomen die Ursachen für die deutsche Wachstums- und Beschäftigungskrise bei den Angebotsbedingungen sehen, plädieren Dr. Heiner Flassbeck und Remi Maier-Rigaud dafür, der Nachfrageseite und der Lohnpolitik mehr Beachtung zu schenken. --

Spring 2019

The Alembic - Spring 2019. 212 pages including covers and advertisements. Table of Contents: Editors Note, 9 Poetry Shea, Cathryn, Shawls of the Color Wheel, 10 Shea, Cathryn, Thought Safe, 12 Shea, Cathryn, Remnants of Star Death, 13 Shea, Cathryn, Visa Balaji Temple, 14 Shea, Cathryn, To Kepler Spacecraft, Not a Man, 15 Ethridge, Rebecca, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 24 Ilechko, Paul, Paper Trail, 28 Stuart, Jane, Long Lost Waltz No. 9, 39 Striuli, Micol, The Things We Carry, 40 Dabrio, Tyara, Motherland, 42 Thoreen, David, In which Dad Does the Voices..., 44 Ahern, Ed, Corporate Vision, 66 Ahern, Ed, Kairos, 67 Sapp, David, A Keening, 68 Sapp, David, Dead Raccoon, 69 Sapp, David, A Good Death, 70 Sapp, David, Scar, 71 Sapp, David, The Limb, 72 Little, Cecelia, Assateague\u27s Life, 74 Nelms, Sheryl, L., Homeless in New Mexico, 104 Nelms, Sheryl, L., Hot Is, 105 Nelms, Sheryl, L., Grey Wolf, 106 Grey, John, Washington Square, 130 Perchik, Simon, *, 132 Perchik, Simon, *, 133 Raab, Zara, My Name is Hardy, 134 Johnston, Marilyn, Unfragmented Fact, 139 Johnston, Marilyn, Heart to Heart, 141 Johnston, Marilyn,, Being One Year Older than the Age Emily Dickinson Died, 143 Tiboni, Hope, Ocean, 144 Parker, Bruce, April Caller, 160 Parker, Bruce, The Hunters in the Snow, 161 Parker, Bruce, Spring is Madness, 162 Perel, Jane Lunin, Cain and Abel, 180 Perel, Jane Lunin, Cash for Scrap, 181 Rose, Alexandra, The Perseids, 182 Rose, Alexandra, momma\u27s fudge brownies, 183 Rose, Alexandra, Of Gains and Guiles, 184 Lopez, Eliana, Knock Knocking, 186 Lopez, Eliana, Come Home, 188 Lopez, Eliana, I Suppose, 191 Lopez, Eliana, Darkness, 193 Lopez, Eliana, Amateur Imagination, 195 Fiction Monte, Megan, With Her, 17 Press, David, The Club, 30 Brickner, Brianna, The Music Box, 60 Henriquez, Dawyn, Adonis, 123 Mello, Meghan, The Art of Self-Reflection - A Message to the Opinionated, 136 Pack, Jr., Jimmy J., About Facing Freedom With a Little Fear, 145 Monroe, Rebecca, Are You Going?, 164 Translations Nervo, Amado, tr. by Clara Howard, The First Kiss, 50 Nervo, Amado, tr. by Clara Howard, United, 52 Nervo, Amado, tr. by Clara Howard, This Book, 54 Nervo, Amado, tr. by Clara Howard, At Peace, 56 Nervo, Amado, tr. by Clara Howard, Kindly and Silently, 58 Hugo, Victor, tr. by Bailey Zimmiti, When a Child Comes, 107 Hugo, Victor, tr. by Bailey Zimmiti, To My Daughter, Adèle, 113 Hugo, Victor, tr. by Bailey Zimmiti, She is gay and pensive, 115 Hugo, Victor, tr. by Bailey Zimmiti, To the Mother Who has Lost a Child, 117 Hugo, Victor, tr. by Bailey Zimmiti, To the Blind Poet, 121 Prose Poetry McLaren, Kincaid, Tender Headed, 26 Henrique, Dawyn, Harmless Arsonist, 49 Burke, Maggie, Forward, 129 Zygiel, Julia, Sand and Sugar, 159 Venuti, Erin, The Cloud, 163 Interviews Interview with Jennifer Malone, 76 Interview with Thomas Tre G. Gilbert, 82 Interview with Jennifer Militello, 94 Interview with Doug Anderson, 100 Book Reviews Striuli, Micol, Feel Free, 197 Bibilos, Elena, When Life Gives you Lululemons, 200 Photography Rigaud, Claire, Bioluminescence, 87 Rigaud, Claire, Fiordland, 88 Rigaud, Claire, Land of the Long White Cloud, 89 Rigaud, Claire, Emerald Forest, 89 Silva, Nikki, Untitled IX, 90 Silva, Nikki, Untitled VI, 90 Silva, Nikki, Untitled XI, 91 D\u27elia, Olivia, Sydney Harbour Bridge, 92 D\u27elia, Olivia, Downtown Sydney, 93 D\u27elia, Olivia, Watson\u27s Bay, Sydney, Australia, 93 Contributors\u27 Notes, 203 Meeting the Editors, 20