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Regenerative Tourism And Transformative Destination Management: Developing A Framework Through The Case Of County Offaly, Yi (Alex) Yu, Mary Loonam Dr, Tony Johnston

Irish Journal of Tourism, Hospitality, Leisure and Event Research

The increasing urgency of climate change, biodiversity loss, and socio-economic transition has generated growing interest in tourism approaches that move beyond sustainability towards more transformative forms of development. While sustainable tourism has become the dominant paradigm within tourism planning and policy, it has been criticised for its emphasis on impact mitigation and its limited capacity to address systemic challenges. In response, regenerative tourism has emerged as an alternative framework that seeks to restore and enhance ecological, social, cultural, and economic systems through tourism activity.

This paper explores the potential of regenerative tourism as a framework for transformative destination management. Drawing …

School Principals’ Perspectives Regarding Successful Professional Development, Kathryn L. Bauserman, Diana Quatroche, Linda E. Martin

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

This descriptive study examined K–12 principals’ perspectives on providing and supporting school‑based professional development in one Midwestern state. Survey responses from 300 principals explored how they defined successful professional development, how they determined teacher learning needs, and the challenges they encountered. Findings revealed that principals valued professional development aligned with instructional improvement, yet many relied on their control of decision‑making processes. Professional development was commonly delivered by school or district personnel, funded through limited local and state resources, and typically offered in short sessions. Principals identified success through surveys, observations, and student achievement data while noting challenges related to funding, …

Map Of Surveys

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Undated map showing original survey by Texas Title Co. with Joel Blackwell survey land highlighted

Abstract Of Title Joel Blackwell Survey 1890

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Abstract of title for the Joel Blackwell survey by The Fort Worth and Tarrant County Land Title Office 17 April 1890

Vendor's Lien Note From N. W. Willett To J. T. King Jr For Part Of The Blackwell Survey Land

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Vendor's Lien Note stating that N. W. Willett will pay J. T. King Jr $700 plus interest for lots 4 and 17 plus the north halves of lots 5 and 16 of the Blackwell survey land

Abstract Of Title Joel Blackwell Survey 1892

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Abstract of title for the Joel Blackwell survey by The Fort Worth and Tarrant County Land Title Office 22 December 1892

Sketch Of Part Of Pilant Acres, Joel Blackwell And M. Harris Survey Lands

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Undated sketch of blocks 12-17 of Pilant Acres and parts of Joel Blackwell and M. Harris survey lands

Sketch Of Part Of Pilant Acres

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Undated sketch of part of Pilant Acres showing blocks 12-17 and the surrounding property

Sketch Of Part Of Joel Blackwell And M. Harris Surveys

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Undated sketch of part of the Joel Blackwell and M. Harris surveys from Rattikin Title Company

Survey Plat Of The North Half Of The Joel Blackwell Survey

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Undated survey plat of the northern half of the Joel Blackwell survey land, by Home Abstract Co.

Field Notes Of Joel Blackwell Survey

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Survey notes of the 640 acre Joel Blackwell survey land, surveyed 3 January 1852 by A. J. Lee D. S. R.L.D. for Home Abstract Co.

Affidavit Regarding Death Of Hiram Blackwell

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Affidavit of Dr. A. Sanderson stating that Hiram Blackwell, last known heir of Joel Blackwell, had died, signed 26 May 1890

Statement Of Land Taxes Due For Tract 2 Of The Blackwell Survey Land

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Undated statement that no taxes are due on the 10.5 acres of tract 2 of the Blackwell survey land, except for in 1921, signed by Deputy Collector A. F. Small

Outline Of Several Survey Lands

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Outline of survey lands for Blackwell 640 acre survey, M. Harris 640 acre survey, and other survey lands, signed by Ross, Herd & Ross 17 April 1898

Abstract Of Title Sol Davis Survey, Yates Brothers Addition, Block 3, 1944

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Abstract of title for the south half of lots 16 and 17 of the Yates Brothers addition to the city of Arlington, part of the Sol Davis survey, by Home Guaranty Abstract Co. 24 November 1944

Partial Survey Plat Of Toliver Acres Tract 37

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Survey plat of the east 100 ft of Tract 37 of the Toliver Acres addition to the city of Arlington by O. V. Di Sciullo

Affidavit Of S. R. Yates Regarding A Survey Plat

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Affidavit of S. R. Yates before notary public Chas H. Rose regarding a survey plat for the city of Arlington

Abstract Of Title Sol Davis Survey, Toliver Acres, Tract 37, 1948-1954

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Abstract of title for a 138 by 150 ft section of Tract 37 of the Toliver Acres addition in the Sol Davis survey land by Elliott & Waldron Abstract Companies 13 February 1948, abstract of title for a 138 by 100 ft section of the same by Stewart Title Company 14 September 1948, abstract of title for the same by Rattikin Title Company 8 November 1954

Affidavit Of Henry M. Dickson Regarding A Survey Plat

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Affidavit of Henry M. Dickson before notary public [Frank Jordan] regarding a survey plat for the city of Arlington

Survey Plat Of Toliver Acres Lots 51-53

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Undated survey plat of Toliver Acres with part of lots 51-53 highlighted by Rattikin title Company

Survey Plat Of Toliver Acres Lot 30

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Undated survey plat of Toliver Acres with lot 30 highlighted by Rattikin title Company

Abstract Of Title Sol Davis Survey, Toliver Acres, Tract 37, 1946

Arlington, Texas Land Records Collection

Abstract of title for a 138 by 50 ft section of Tract 37 of the Toliver Acres addition in the Sol Davis survey land by Home Guaranty Abstract Co. 10 December 1946

The Display Color Correction Methodology That Will Utilize A Pre-Color Corrected Camera Where The Pre-Color Corrected Camera Will Be Color Corrected Under Ambient Lighting Conditions And Where The Display Will Be Color Corrected Under The Same Ambient Lighting Conditions., Punarjeewa Abeysekera

Defensive Publications Series

This paper describes a display color correction methodology that will utilize a pre color corrected camera where the pre color corrected camera will be color corrected under ambient lighting conditions and where the display will be color corrected under the same ambient lighting conditions. The display color correction methodology will initially involve utilizing the camera to take an image of a reference color chart with a known collection of RGB pixel equivalent color values under a particular ambient lighting condition. During this camera procedure, the pre known RGB pixel equivalent color values of the reference color chart and the camera …

Designing Smart Charity: A Tri-Tiered Systems Engineering Framework For Global Capital Allocation, Christopher L. Eckes

Defensive Publications Series

Traditional philanthropic capital allocation models consistently exhibit binary systemic failure modes: low-velocity palliative aid loops that induce sovereign moral hazards, or hyper-insulated frontier engineering moonshots that leave present-day socio-economic baselines highly vulnerable to exogenous shocks. This specification introduces the Tri-Tiered Systems Engineering Framework for Philanthropy, an objective, non-weaponizable technical model that treats charitable giving as an essential infrastructure risk-management protocol rather than a speculative moral luxury.

By segmenting capital allocation into three distinct, non-interchangeable tiers—Palliative Stabilization (Tier 1), Environmental Upgrades (Tier 2), and Frontier Innovation (Tier 3)—this architecture models global civilizational utility as a complex physical system. We leverage historical …

Multi-Tier, Signal-Weighted Topic Exclusion For Recurring Ai Content Suggestion, With A Batch-Completeness Guarantee, Vipul Panday

Defensive Publications Series

A system that repeatedly generates a fresh batch of candidate content topics for a person to choose from, once per day in this case, will eventually re-surface a topic that person has already engaged with in some way, unless the system tracks and consults that history. Doing this naively creates two opposite failure modes. Excluding too little re-shows the same ideas, and excluding too much eventually starves the system of anything left to offer, because a topic a person simply didn't pick that day (having preferred a different one in the same batch) is not the same signal as a …

Automated Software Defect Analysis And Prevention Via A Closed-Loop Knowledge Extraction Pipeline, Snigdha Saha, Zening Li, Shu-Wei Cheng

Defensive Publications Series

In large-scale software development, root-cause analysis can be a manual process that may not effectively connect production crashes to nuanced discussions from code reviews. A system for automated software defect analysis can use a closed-loop pipeline to extract engineering principles from historical development artifacts, such as code review comments, to create a structured, machine-readable knowledge base. An autonomous agent may use this knowledge base to analyze new code contributions, generating quantitative risk scores based on principle violations, disparities between developer intent and the code changes, and similarity to historical crash-inducing changes. This process may assist in accelerating root-cause analysis of …

Test Point Insertion System For Hard‑To‑Detect Hierarchies Using Netlist Structural Signature Analysis, Krunal Siddhapathak, Aditya Phatak, Ankit Garg

Defensive Publications Series

Achieving complete fault coverage in complex System‑on‑Chip (SoC) designs during Automated Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) can cause test pattern volume inflation, as standard Test Point Insertion (TPI) techniques distribute test points uniformly rather than targeting specific structural bottlenecks.  Disclosed is a predictive test point insertion system that analyzes synthesized netlists to identify Hard‑to‑Detect (HTD) logic hierarchies through structural signature evaluation.  The system parses logic cones, pinpoints structural barriers (e.g., sequential state machines, wide comparators), and concentrates test point placement within the identified HTD hierarchies.  Concentrating test points into these structural bottlenecks reduces total test pattern volume while preserving fault coverage …

Generating Specialized Models For Visual Ui Defect Detection Via Fine-Tuning And Active Learning, Juan Borgnino, Fei Wang, Zening Li, Shu-Wei Cheng, Kamakshi Kodur

Defensive Publications Series

Quality assurance for visually complex applications may be resource-intensive, and some automated methods can be inaccurate or difficult to scale. A systematic framework is described for generating specialized machine learning models for visual user interface defect detection. This approach can involve adapting large, pre-trained foundational models through a fine-tuning process that uses small, curated datasets, with each model trained to recognize a specific visual anomaly. The framework can also incorporate data augmentation and an active learning feedback loop to iteratively improve model performance by sampling and labeling challenging examples. This process may enable the creation of classifiers for quality assurance, …

Optimized Tendon-Driven Transmission Architecture For Multi-Joint Robotic Manipulation Systems, Anonymous

Defensive Publications Series

A tendon-driven robotic finger transmission architecture and associated design methodology are disclosed. A hierarchical mixed-actuator N+1 configuration uses a remotely located macro actuator to drive a single wrist-crossing macro tendon that produces flexion across multiple finger joints, and one or more palm-housed mini actuators to provide extension and correction torques. A pulley-based routing arrangement places rolling elements at or near joint rotation centers to reduce configuration-dependent tendon excursion coupling, including routing the macro tendon through or coincident with the MCP abduction/adduction axis to reduce parasitic ab/ad torque. A force polytope optimization procedure computes feasible fingertip force polytopes from tendon bounds …

Decentralized System For Agent-Mediated Querying Of Personal Knowledge Repositories, Calvin Huang, Fei Wang, Zening Li, Shu-Wei Cheng, Snigdha Saha

Defensive Publications Series

The capture of tacit knowledge in organizations may be hindered by friction associated with manual documentation. A decentralized system can address this by providing each user with a personal knowledge repository (PKR) hosted on a shared, searchable file system. A local software agent, operating on a user's computing device (e.g., a laptop, smartphone, or wearable device), can populate the PKR through explicit commands or passive monitoring of work activities, with user consent. This agent can also directly query the PKRs of other users across a peer-to-peer network to retrieve information. The system can provide a method for accessing distributed information, …