Matthias Schmidt

TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the historical and present migration processes with a special focus on three village communities in rural Kyrgyzstan is presented, dealing with the opportunities and difficulties with which labour migrants and their non-migrating family members are confronted today.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of these environmental, institutional and cultural changes on natural resource management strategies, using empirical research undertaken in four villages of western Afar (Ethiopia) to assess the related challenges to local livelihoods.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison of tunable pi -and T-matching networks based on ferroelectric capacitors is presented, and the requirements to achieve sufficient linearity are determined by means of simulations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impacts of Lake Urmia desiccation on rural households and analyzed the occurrence and different forms of local villagers' coping strategies, finding that rural communities are considerably dependent on the lake basin's ecosystem services, such as water availability, clean air, soil and local climate regulation.

TL;DR: The use of photonic crystal fibers in chemistry and sensing is reviewed and recent applications as catalytic microreactors are presented in this article, where results on homogeneous catalysis and the immobilization of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts in the fiber channels are discussed.