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Community-Based Homestay as a Form of Sustainable Tourism in Nigeria

Description: Article explores community-based homestays in Nigeria as a sustainable tourism strategy to support local livelihoods and advance the Sustainable Development Goals. Using stakeholder theory and focus groups, it highlights the need for collaboration, community participation, supportive policies, and equitable economic benefits.
Date: June 5, 2025
Creator: Ijose, Opemipo Alaba & KC, Birendra
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Partner: UNT College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism
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The transferability of passion: how green influencers inspire tourists’ green initiative support

Description: Article investigates how green influencers inspire tourist support for sustainability initiatives, showing that influencers’ authentic passion boosts tourists’ own passion and green self‑efficacy. Article further demonstrates that this contagion effect strengthens when influencers communicate clear calls to action, offering practical guidance for destinations seeking to promote sustainable tourist behavior.
Date: December 7, 2024
Creator: Ding, Anni; Legendre, Tiffany S.; Lee, Harold S. & Min, Jihye (Ellie)
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The Business of Sustainability in Fashion: Following the Threads

Description: Book focused on critical and creative thinking surrounding corporate and consumer sustainability while succinctly illustrating how interdependent the challenges of being sustainable are. As the world becomes more aware of the urgency of climate change, landfill overuse, and protecting precious resources, this book can be used as a primer for understanding the problems and exploring solutions. Those who are interested in “doing something” will benefit from reading this book, which takes a compl… more
Date: 2023
Creator: Jestratijevic, Iva
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The future of baby cosmetics packaging and sustainable development: A look at sustainable materials and packaging innovations - A systematic review

Description: This study presents a holistic global assessment of sustainable packaging options tailored for the baby cosmetics sector. Findings reveal that while 39% of brands omit packaging material details, 61% embrace recyclable, refillable, or bio-based alternatives.
Date: October 1, 2023
Creator: Vrabič-Brodnjak, Urška & Jestratijevic, Iva
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Unraveling the Role of Social Media Influencers' Characteristics in Increasing Consumer CSR Engagement: A Perspective from Social Learning Theory

Description: With the growing importance of CSR practices and the use of social media influencers in promoting companies’ CSR initiatives, it is timely to identify the role of social media influencer characteristics in increasing consumer CSR engagement to provide implications in selecting the right social media influencers for their CSR initiatives. This study examined the role of social media influencer (SMI) characteristics that affect perceived credibility of SMIs’ CSR messages, foster consumer desire t… more
Date: January 3, 2024
Creator: Yang, Kiseol; Menchaca, Elisha & Lizarraga, Brenda Esquivel
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Luxury Brand vs. AI Generated Social Media Ads: An Experimental Study

Description: This poster investigates social media marketing communications created by the luxury brand and the AI technology and to determine if there is a difference in overall follow intention. It was presented at the UNT Research Day on October 4, 2024 in Denton, Texas.
Date: October 4, 2024
Creator: Slaton, Kelcie; Pookulangara, Sanjukta & Ratnam, Malini
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Investigation of a Consumer’s Purchase Intentions and Behaviors towards Environmentally Friendly Grocery Packaging

Description: Article asserts that plastic packaging dominates the US grocery industry, which raises the question of whether consumers are purchasing food that is not wrapped in conventional plastic but environmentally friendly packaging. Through their study, the authors hope that their findings provide marketers with fresh insights into the characteristics of consumers willing to purchase grocery items packaged in environmentally friendly materials.
Date: May 30, 2023
Creator: Oliver, Mikah O.; Jestratijevic, Iva; Uanhoro, James & Knight, Dee K.
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Sustainable and Innovative Packaging Solutions in the Fashion Industry: Global Report

Description: Article states it is the first global report on sustainable packaging innovation in the fashion sector using data-mining to gather a sample of 400 international fashion brands that advertise sustainable packaging solution across five continents. The report discusses the sustainability of the packaging of these fashion brands, testing the validity of their claims of sustainable packaging.
Date: October 19, 2022
Creator: Jestratijevic, Iva & Brodnjak-Vrabič, Urška
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"Why Should I Buy Sustainable Apparel?" Impact of User-Centric Advertisements on Consumers’ Affective Responses and Sustainable Apparel Purchase Intentions

Description: Article identifies some of the most important consumer concerns from the literature that influences consumers’ sustainable apparel purchase intentions. The authors propose a conceptual model grounded in the Elaboration Likelihood Model to test the efficacy of user-centric advertisements in encouraging purchase intentions for sustainable apparel, and conducted a between-subject experiment with female millennials in the U.S.
Date: September 15, 2022
Creator: Chakraborty, Swagata & Sadachar, Amrut
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Increasing Students Access to Educational and Experiential Learning Opportunities in Agritourism

Description: Data management plan for the grant, "Increasing students access to educational and experiential learning opportunities in agritourism." The project aims to develop an online course on agritourism within the sustainability framework, to be offered by the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: 2022-09-01/2026-08-31
Creator: KC, Birendra
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An Ethnographic Study of Collaborative Fashion Consumption: The Case of Temporary Clothing Swapping

Description: This article is the first research that has examined temporary swapping, a form of collaborative fashion consumption, that involves clothing exchange between two people that does not require the transfer of product ownership or monetary compensation. In this ethnographic study the authors explored benefits, risks, and the meanings constructed by eight women before, during, and after exchanging parts of their wardrobes with a swap partner.
Date: February 22, 2022
Creator: Karpova, Elena E.; Jestratijevic, Iva; Lee, JuYoung & Wu, Juanjuan
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Fashion consumption during COVID-19: Comparative analysis of changing acquisition practices across nine countries and implications for sustainability

Description: Article explores and compares changes in clothing acquisition practices during COVID-19 across nine countries: the USA, the UK, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Iran, Czech Republic, India, and Hong Kong SAR.
Date: April 13, 2022
Creator: Vladimirova, Katia; Henninger, Claudia E.; Joyner-Martinez, Cosette; Iran, Samira; Diddi, Sonali; Durrani, Marium et al.
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The Tourism Sector and U.S. Regional Macroeconomic Stability: A Network Approach

Description: This article investigates how the structural mix of USA regional economies affects their volatility of economic growth using four exogenous sectors: Federal Government, construction, manufacturing, and tourism. Results suggest that a larger share of Federal Government employment in an economy reduces the variability of overall employment growth, while a larger share of construction activity elevates it. Results also show that recently manufacturing has not contributed as much to such variabilit… more
Date: September 13, 2020
Creator: Min, Jihye Ellie; Agrusa, Jerome; Lema, Joseph & Lee, Harold
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The Impact of Disasters on a Heritage Tourist Destination: A Case Study of Nepal Earthquakes

Description: Article examining the degree of macroeconomic recovery of the Nepal tourism industry after a natural disaster using the autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA). The study investigated the case of Nepal’s earthquakes in 2015 and examined the impact of the earthquakes on tourism inflows and GDP using time series data from 1990 to 2018.
Date: July 29, 2020
Creator: Min, Jihye Ellie; KC, Birendra; Kim, Seungman & Lee, Jaehoon
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Faith in Fat: A Multisite Examination of University Students’ Perceptions of Fat in the Diet

Description: Article examining college students’ perceptions of health among foods with no fat relative to foods with different types of fats (unsaturated and saturated). Findings suggest that college students lack knowledge regarding the vital role played by the type and amount of fats within a healthy diet.
Date: August 24, 2020
Creator: Landry, Matthew J.; Olvany, Jasmine M.; Mueller, Megan P.; Chen, Tiffany; Ikeda, Dana; Sinclair, Danielle et al.
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Convolutional Neural Network for Extracting 3D Point Clouds of Fibrous Web From Multi-Focus Images

Description: Article presents a new method for extracting 3D point clouds from multi-focus images of a fibrous web acquired on an optical microscope to analyze microscopic structures of a fibrous web.
Date: May 11, 2020
Creator: Hou, Jue; Ouyang, Wenbin; Xu, Bugao & Wang, Rongwu
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Aspect-Based Fashion Recommendation With Attention Mechanism

Description: Article proposes an aspect-based fashion recommendation model with attention mechanism (AFRAM) to predict customer ratings based on online reviews of fashion products. The experiment results demonstrate that AFRAM is more effective in customer rating predictions, as compared to several state-of-the-art fashion recommenders.
Date: August 3, 2020
Creator: Li, Weiqian & Xu, Bugao
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A comparative study of electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride and poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) fiber webs: Mechanical properties, crystallinity, and piezoelectric properties

Description: Article is a study examining the fabrication and characterization of electrospun randomly oriented and aligned grooved polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) (PVDF-TrFE) fiber webs.
Date: July 29, 2020
Creator: Xu, Bugao; Zhang, Wenxin; Zaarour, Bilal; Zhu, Lei; Huang, Chen & Jin, Xiangyu
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Segmenting Wildlife Value Orientations to Mitigate Human–Wildlife Conflict for Ecotourism Development in Protected Areas

Description: This article investigates residents’ value orientation towards wildlife in the context of Bardia National Park (BNP), Nepal. Findings reveal challenges for ecotourism development.
Date: July 6, 2021
Creator: KC, Birendra; Min, Jihye Ellie & Serenari, Christopher
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Numerical Simulation of Fiber Motion in the Condensing Zone of Lateral Compact Spinning with Pneumatic Groove

Description: This article creates a new fiber model to simulate the agglomeration process, to analyze yarn properties of the lateral compact spinning with pneumatic groove, and to compare with other spinning yarns through a series of tests. The experiments demonstrated that the lateral compact spinning with pneumatic groove can improve the yarn properties: increase the yarn twist, enhance the yarn strength, and reduce the yarn hairiness.
Date: July 16, 2021
Creator: Lyu, Jindan; Cheng, Longdi; Xu, Bugao & Hua, Zhihong
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