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Investigation of a Consumer’s Purchase Intentions and Behaviors towards Environmentally Friendly Grocery Packaging (open access)

Investigation of a Consumer’s Purchase Intentions and Behaviors towards Environmentally Friendly Grocery Packaging

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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Secondary Luxury Consumer: An Investigation into Online Consumption (open access)

The Secondary Luxury Consumer: An Investigation into Online Consumption

Article studies consumption behaviors of secondary luxury consumers by investigating secondary consumer beliefs and purchase intention, specifically in the context of online shopping.
Date: October 24, 2022
Creator: Slaton, Kelcie & Pookulangara, Sanjukta
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustainable and Innovative Packaging Solutions in the Fashion Industry: Global Report (open access)

Sustainable and Innovative Packaging Solutions in the Fashion Industry: Global Report

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Why Should I Buy Sustainable Apparel?" Impact of User-Centric Advertisements on Consumers’ Affective Responses and Sustainable Apparel Purchase Intentions (open access)

"Why Should I Buy Sustainable Apparel?" Impact of User-Centric Advertisements on Consumers’ Affective Responses and Sustainable Apparel Purchase Intentions

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fashion consumption during COVID-19: Comparative analysis of changing acquisition practices across nine countries and implications for sustainability (open access)

Fashion consumption during COVID-19: Comparative analysis of changing acquisition practices across nine countries and implications for sustainability

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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Ethnographic Study of Collaborative Fashion Consumption: The Case of Temporary Clothing Swapping (open access)

An Ethnographic Study of Collaborative Fashion Consumption: The Case of Temporary Clothing Swapping

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: December 26, 2021
Creator: Karpova, Elena E.; Jestratijevic, Iva; Lee, JuYoung & Wu, Juanjuan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Numerical Simulation of Fiber Motion in the Condensing Zone of Lateral Compact Spinning with Pneumatic Groove (open access)

Numerical Simulation of Fiber Motion in the Condensing Zone of Lateral Compact Spinning with Pneumatic Groove

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Segmenting Wildlife Value Orientations to Mitigate Human–Wildlife Conflict for Ecotourism Development in Protected Areas (open access)

Segmenting Wildlife Value Orientations to Mitigate Human–Wildlife Conflict for Ecotourism Development in Protected Areas

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Country Differences in Determinants of Behavioral Intention towards Sustainable Apparel Products (open access)

Country Differences in Determinants of Behavioral Intention towards Sustainable Apparel Products

This article explores determinants of behavioral intention toward sustainable apparel products (SAP). It examines both consumer characteristics (shopping values, consciousness of sustainability, perceived consumer effectiveness, and environmental knowledge) and marketing perspective (evaluation criteria of SAP) determinants for encouraging sustainable apparel consumption behaviors. Significant country differences emerge and validate that differentiated marketing strategies are required when targeting global consumers.
Date: January 8, 2021
Creator: Jung, Hye Jung; Oh, Kyung Wa & Kim, Haejung
System: The UNT Digital Library
Difference evaluation between plant dyed and industrial dyed cotton fabrics based on perceptual factors (open access)

Difference evaluation between plant dyed and industrial dyed cotton fabrics based on perceptual factors

Article studying the perceptual evaluation of consumers for different dyed fabrics. Results of plant dyed fabric and industrial dyed fabric are discussed.
Date: 2021
Creator: Yin, Wei; Lyu, Jia & Xu, Bugao
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tourism Sector and U.S. Regional Macroeconomic Stability: A Network Approach (open access)

The Tourism Sector and U.S. Regional Macroeconomic Stability: A Network Approach

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 variability, and that a larger tourism presence increases it. The increasing integration of technology in tourism offers significant opportunities for a network approach and innovation in regional development.
Date: September 13, 2020
Creator: Min, Jihye Ellie; Agrusa, Jerome; Lema, Joseph & Lee, Harold
System: The UNT Digital Library
Faith in Fat: A Multisite Examination of University Students’ Perceptions of Fat in the Diet (open access)

Faith in Fat: A Multisite Examination of University Students’ Perceptions of Fat in the Diet

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: July 9, 2020
Creator: Landry, Matthew J.; Olvany, Jasmine M.; Mueller, Megan P.; Chen, Tiffany; Ikeda, Dana; Sinclair, Danielle et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aspect-Based Fashion Recommendation With Attention Mechanism (open access)

Aspect-Based Fashion Recommendation With Attention Mechanism

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: Xu, Bugao
System: The UNT Digital Library
A comparative study of electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride and poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) fiber webs: Mechanical properties, crystallinity, and piezoelectric properties (open access)

A comparative study of electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride and poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) fiber webs: Mechanical properties, crystallinity, and piezoelectric properties

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Disasters on a Heritage Tourist Destination: A Case Study of Nepal Earthquakes (open access)

The Impact of Disasters on a Heritage Tourist Destination: A Case Study of Nepal Earthquakes

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Convolutional Neural Network for Extracting 3D Point Clouds of Fibrous Web From Multi-Focus Images (open access)

Convolutional Neural Network for Extracting 3D Point Clouds of Fibrous Web From Multi-Focus Images

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
System: The UNT Digital Library
3D Web Reconstruction of a Fibrous Filter Using Sequential Multi-Focus Images (open access)

3D Web Reconstruction of a Fibrous Filter Using Sequential Multi-Focus Images

Article presents an imaging method to reconstruct the 3D structure of a fibrous filter from its optical microscopic images.
Date: 2019
Creator: Yu, Lingjie; Wang, Guanlin; Zhi, Chao & Xu, Bugao
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Associated with Conservation Participation by Local Communities in Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project, Nepal (open access)

Factors Associated with Conservation Participation by Local Communities in Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project, Nepal

This article examines how residents’ natural resource dependency and other social, economic, and access-related variables predict conservation participation.Overall, key findings suggest that conservation participation at Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project (GCAP)—a newly designated mountainous protected area in Nepal— needs to be improved with multiple outreach activities, especially to resource-dependent households.
Date: July 22, 2018
Creator: Paudyal, Ramesh; Thapa, Brijesh; Shree Neupane, Suman & Birendra
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bonding and Bridging Forms of Social Capital in Wildlife Tourism Microentrepreneurship: An Application of Social Network Analysis (open access)

Bonding and Bridging Forms of Social Capital in Wildlife Tourism Microentrepreneurship: An Application of Social Network Analysis

This article examines a network of wildlife tourism microentrepreneurs for bonding and bridging forms of social capital using a social network analysis approach.
Date: December 29, 2017
Creator: KC, Birendra; Morais, Duarte B.; Seekamp, Erin; Smith, Jordan W. & Peterson, M. Nils
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence Approach for Pavement Distress Assessment (PICUCHA) (open access)

Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence Approach for Pavement Distress Assessment (PICUCHA)

This article proposes a new method named PICture Unsupervised Classification with Human Analysis (PICUCHA) to circumvent many of the limitations of existing approaches, based on a combination of human and artificial intelligence.
Date: July 2017
Creator: Salini, Reus; Xu, Bugao & Carvalho, Regis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pavement Distress Detection with PICUCHA Methodology for Area-Scan Cameras and Dark Images (open access)

Pavement Distress Detection with PICUCHA Methodology for Area-Scan Cameras and Dark Images

This article discusses the test of the PICture Unsupervised Classification with Human Analysis (PICUCHA) performance with images taken with area-scan cameras and flash light illumination over a pavement with dark textures.
Date: April 2017
Creator: Salini, Reus; Xu, Bugao & Paplauskas, Paulius
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impact of Image Resolution Pavement Distress Detection Using PICUCHA Methodology (open access)

Impact of Image Resolution Pavement Distress Detection Using PICUCHA Methodology

This article describes a study focused on the analysis of a newly-developed pavement distress classification algorithm, called the PICture Unsupervised Classification with Human Analysis (PICUCHA) method, particularly the impact of image resolutions on its classification accuracy.
Date: December 2016
Creator: Salini, Reus; Xu, Bugao & Souliman, Mena
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impacts of sustainable value and business stewardship on lifestyle practices in clothing consumption (open access)

Impacts of sustainable value and business stewardship on lifestyle practices in clothing consumption

This article tests the sustainable Values and Lifestyles Scale (VALS) framework by identifying the sustainable value and lifestyle practices, and examining the impacts of business stewardship on consumer sustainable practices.
Date: October 26, 2015
Creator: Hyun-Nam Lee, Stacy; Kim, Haejung & Yang, Kiseol
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Namastey London”: Bollywood Movies and Their Impact on how Indians Perceive European Destinations (open access)

“Namastey London”: Bollywood Movies and Their Impact on how Indians Perceive European Destinations

This article analyzes the perception of European destinations through the eyes of Indian Bollywood film viewers to determine how perception is influenced by what is viewed in films. Results indicate differences in destination preference among Bollywood viewers and worldwide tourist trends. Findings indicate that prominently featuring a landscape within Bollywood films can significantly impact Indians’ perception on the destinations’ image.
Date: June 2014
Creator: Josiam, Bharath M.; Spears, Daniel L.; Dutta, Kirti; Pookulangara, Sanjukta & Kinley, Tammy
System: The UNT Digital Library