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    Autonomous care decisions: what can Article 12 of the CRPD offer to older disabled adults and their supporters?
    (Taylor & Francis, 2023-04-09) Lai, Poland
    This article offers the author’s personal reflections on the meaning of article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRP D) by drawing from the author’s experience as a carersupporter. Being recognised as someone who can make decisions is a fundamental human right. For many persons with disabilities, denial of such right is a fact of life. This article explores the issue of exercise of legal capacity as it affects older adults who live with significant cognitive and physical changes. The author highlights some of the complexities when professionals and carers such as family members have tremendous influences over older disabled adults’ decisions about care. It is argued that the State has an obligation to establish appropriate support measures for carers so that they possess the necessary capabilities and strengths to provide decision-making support to older disabled adults who accept such support in care settings.
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    Settler-Colonial Structure and Indigenous Agency
    (SAGE Publications, 2026-08-22) Ray, Dean Raymond
    Settler-colonial theory has become an influential framework in sociology. Yet its central claim—that settler-colonialism is an enduring structure organized by a “logic of elimination”—generates a theoretical paradox. If settler-colonialism is total, how can Indigenous agency be theorized without reproducing the structure it seeks to transcend? I address this tension by bringing sociological theories of structure and agency into dialogue with settler-colonial studies and Indigenous theory. Drawing on William Sewell Jr.’s conception of structure as the coupling of cultural schemas and material resources, I reinterpret two foundational concepts: the logic of elimination and the politics of recognition. Yet Indigenous theorists highlight forms of agency that exceed sociological accounts of action within a shared structural field. I therefore distinguish between interior agency, exercised within settler structures, and exterior agency, which sustains Indigenous worlds beyond them.
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    The reinvention of an energy hub’s planning by considering tidal turbine, bi-facial PV panels, and INVELOX: A unique outlook on the combination performance of novel RERs
    (IEEE, 2024-11-26) Shaterabadi, Mohammad; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Karimi, Houshang; Iqbal, Atif; Jirdehi, Mehdi Ahmadi
    New approaches must be taken due to the rapid growth of societies globally and the urgent need for more energy, climate change, and global warming. One of these approaches is supporting and expanding new and efficient renewable energy resources (RERs). Therefore, this paper is dedicated to the energy planning and management of the proposed structure in which novel renewable-based technologies such as INVELOX wind turbines, Bi-facial photovoltaic (PV) panels, and tidal turbines (TT), in addition to the demand response programs (DRP) especially time of use (TOU), are investigated. The purpose is to simultaneously reducing the presented system’s overall cost and environmental pollution. The problem is modeled as mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) in GAMS software and solved using a CPLEX solver. The final results show that novel technologies recognized as efficient can significantly reduce contamination, expenses, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while supplying our rapidly growing demand.
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    The energy management and planning of the proposed Water-Energy nexus concept by considering tidal turbine and INVELOX as novel options
    (IEEE, 2024-11-08) Shaterabadi, Mohammad; Mehrjerdi, Hasan; Dehghanian, Payman; Karimi, Houshang
    The energy and water crisis due to the rapidly growing population and developing societies caused countries and governments to think about novel technologies and ways to respond to this issue. Therefore, this paper is about energy planning and management of the proposed concept for supplying water and energy simultaneously. This approach helps to overcome and supply the dramatic energy need of desalination and distribution systems. This article aims to supply the demands and minimize the total cost at the same time. Various renewable and non-renewable energy resources such as tidal turbines, INVELOX turbines, CHP, micro-turbines, and other elements are utilized in the proposed planning. Real weather conditions are considered to compute the output power of wind and tidal turbines. The presented water-energy nexus structure is modeled as a MINLP concept and solved in GAMS software using various solvers to illustrate the reliability of the optimization answers. The final results show a high improvement in the total cost reduction.