Developing an Organizational Readiness Framework for BIM Implementation in Large Design Companies

BIM is a set of interacting processes, human, information, and technology components. A successful BIM implementation in organizations requires not only the  consideration of technical issues but also other organizational changes. However, existing standards, guidelines, and protocols mainly focus on guiding practitioners the right way to develop and implement BIM technology. Change management for BIM implementation in organizations has not had sufficient attention in practice to other components, which would result in ineffectiveness and inefficiency. In the process of organizational change, readiness is considered a first critical step to break the status quo before going to the adoption and institutionalization phase when the necessary changes are implemented, and the system is internalized. This study aims to develop a comprehensive organizational readiness framework for BIM implementation to help large design firms build up organizational capabilities in the BIM adoption phase. Twelve semi-interviews were conducted with the participation of BIM specialists working in design companies, BIM consultants, and Design-Build contractors in Vietnam. The framework consists of six key elements: strategy, organizational structure, process, people, technology, and information management. Each of these elements was developed with specific criteria to support design companies to assess and create organizational readiness for BIM implementation. The paper ends with a further discussion on influential factors in creating organizational readiness for BIM

TÀI SẢN THƯƠNG HIỆU BÁO ĐIỆN TỬ VIỆT NAM: TỪ HÀI LÒNG ĐẾN TRUNG THÀNH THƯƠNG HIỆU

The study analyzes the intricate relationship between Brand Awareness, Brand Trust, Perceived Value, Brand Satisfaction, and Brand Loyalty in the context of e-newspaper brands in Vietnam. Data was collected in both face-to-face and online forms from 303 e-readers of the most popular e-newspapers nowadays, as follows: VnExpress, Dantri, VietNamNet, Tuoi Tre, and Thanh Nien. Collected data are filtered, processed, and analyzed by the PLS-SEM structural model using the SmartPLS tool. The research results have provided an empirical basis for the positive impact of factors influencing brand loyalty and the mediating role of brand satisfaction in the context of e-newspaper brands in Vietnam, thereby contributing enormously to the theoretical basis of the brand equity model.Nghiên cứu phân tích mối quan hệ phức tạp giữa các yếu tố Nhận thức thương hiệu, Niềm tin thương hiệu, Giá trị cảm nhận, Hài lòng thương hiệu và Trung thành thương hiệu trong bối cảnh thương hiệu báo điện tử ở Việt Nam dựa trên lý thuyết về mô hình tài sản thương hiệu CBBE (Customer-based Brand Equity). Dữ liệu điều tra được thu thập bằng hình thức trực tiếp và trực tuyến đối với 303 độc giả số của các trang báo điện tử phố biến nhất hiện nay như: VnExpress, Dân trí, VietNamNet, Tuổi Trẻ và Thanh Niên. Dữ liệu thu thập được làm sạch, xử lý và tiến hành phân tích mô hình cấu trúc PLS-SEM bằng công cụ SmartPLS. Kết quả nghiên cứu đã cung cấp một cơ sở thực chứng về tác động tích cực của các nhân tố ảnh hưởng đến sự trung thành thương hiệu và vai trò trung gian của sự hài lòng thương hiệu trong bối cảnh thương hiệu báo điện tử ở Việt Nam, từ đó đóng góp vào cơ sở lý thuyết về mô hình tài sản thương hiệu

Hail the Maintainers: Rethinking Technology in Chinese History

Professor Francesca Bray gave the 2016-2017 Hu Shih Distinguished Lecture on April 20th, 2017, arguing the importance of embedding the history of technology into Chinese historiography in her speech, "Hail the Maintainers: Rethinking Technology in Chinese History". An edited video of the lecture, including the audio-visual presentation used during the lecture.Cornell East Asia Program1_7aftams

At The Censor Interface: The Thai Television Lakorn, Its Spectators And Policing Bodies

My thesis investigates six cases of censorship of the television lakorn, Thailand's version of the soap opera, from 2005 to the present. The primetime lakorn is consistently being watched by a quarter to a third of the nation, making it the programming with the farthest reach. These cases of censorship contend with issues of queer visibility, feminine desires, gender roles, family values, political authority, and corruption. I explore the censorship of lakorn as operating at an interface because it does not adhere to the rhetoric of censorship as the strict state prohibition of certain images and discourses pre-coded in official policies. The Thai state is neither the initiator nor authoritative decision-maker in these acts of censoring. Lakorn censorship is instead a process in which the interface serves as a physical and virtual space of interaction, mediation and negotiation. This process is ongoing since it does not begin nor cease with an external decision from a state board of censors and conditional since it depends on a substantial public reaction. My study does not disregard the role of the state; rather it problematizes the extent and nature of that role and its inconsistencies. While the state never initiates censorship, it is always involved and implicated in varying extents. Lakorn censorship does not confirm the existence of a monolithic Thai state with the exclusive right to control broadcasting, but rather a state in conversation with others. Thus, the censor interface serves as a discursive site where interest groups, state bodies, channel executives and concerned individuals encounter each another to discuss, debate, and deliberate a wide range of pertinent issues. My thesis is a study of contemporary Thai popular culture in motion. Due to its mainstream appeal and soap genre conventions, the lakorn is the medium capable of breaching the fantasy/reality and public/private divides. Censorship is the lens through which to examine the dynamic relationship between the institution of law, lawmakers and citizens. Finally, lakorn spectators, both fanatics and critics, are the drivers of cultural change through their participation at the censor interface

Moving from Nation to Region: China in Northeast Asian History

video of full lecture with presentation slides edited into video.Professor Evelyn Rawski (Distinguished University Professor, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh) - "Moving from Nation to Region: China in Northeast Asian History" October 1, 2015 In this lecture Professor Rawski recounts her recent attempt to incorporate China into regional and world history, and in the process review the different historical perspectives from which Chinese history has been viewed, both in “traditional” and modern times. The talk concludes with a brief survey of current developments in history writing, and their linkage to contemporary geopolitics in Asia. Evelyn S. Rawski holds a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University and is currently Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published books on sixteenth and eighteenth-century Chinese agricultural development, elementary literacy, and the emperors and imperial institutions of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1911. She has co-edited conference volumes on popular culture, Chinese death ritual, and ritual music, and co-authored a book on eighteenth-century Chinese society. Her most recent book, Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives uses Chinese, Japanese, and Korean primary sources and secondary literature to analyze China’s geopolitical, diplomatic, and cultural relationships with Japan and Korea in the 1500-1800 period. For more information: eap.einaudi.cornell.edu/2015-2016-evelyn-rawskiCornell East Asia Program1_r4c9jvb

CCCI Spring 2016 February 22, 2016 lecture

Video of full lecture with presentation slides edited into the video.Cornell Contemporary China Initiative Lecture Series: Zachary Howlett (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell University) - "China's National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) as Fateful Rite of Passage: 'A Great Army Crossing a Narrow Plank Bridge'." February 22, 2016 Zach Howlett clarifies the perceptions among students, parents, and teachers about issues of meritocracy, academic achievement, and social inequality within China’s college entrance exam system. Introduction by Robin McNeal, director of the CCCI and the Cornell East Asia Program. For additional resources: eap.einaudi.cornell.edu/ccci-spring-2016Cornell East Asia Program1_i8bfqb4

The Great Reversal: China, Korea, and Japan in the Early Modern World

video of lecture with presentation slides edited into video.Inaugural Hu Shih Distinguish Lecture given by Professor Benjamin Elman (Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University) - "The Great Reversal: China, Korea, and Japan in the Early Modern World" April 10, 2015 The “rise of Japan” and the “fall of China” in the late 19th century are story lines that dominated Sinology and Japanology in the 20th century. In the inaugural Hu Shih Lecture, Benjamin Elman uses Japan’s victory in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 to indicate that in the 21st century we are entering new historical terrain vis-à-vis “modern” China and Japan. Wars and cultural history are inseparable. The competing/complementary narratives constructed by the victors and the losers of wars on the ground and at sea enshroud the past in a thick ideological fog. Seeing through the fog created by the “First” (or was it the “Second”? the “Third”?) Sino-Japanese War in 1894-95 allows us to place Sino-Japanese cultural interactions before 1894 in a new light with less teleology and fewer blind spots. The Meiji “rise of Japan” as event and narrative empowered uniquely “modernist” critiques of the “decadence” of Chinese art, traditional Chinese history, and conveniently provided Chinese revolutionaries with a “failed China” in a post-war East Asian world. For more information: eap.einaudi.cornell.edu/2014-2015-benjamin-elmanCornell East Asia Program1_tc4plqe

CCCI Fall 2016: The Memory Project

CCCI Lecture Series: Filmmakers from The Memory Project at Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing - "Knocking on Memory's Door with a Video Camera" November 7, 2016 We are walking down Memory Lane. We are continuing to remember. CCD Workstation began the Folk Memory Documentary Project in 2010. More than twenty participants traveled back to their family villages to film and interview village elders. Their research focused on the years from 1959 to 1961, a period known as the Great Chinese Famine. A handful of people took video cameras and went back to their respective villages. They went in search of the old generation still living there in dim, stark houses. They went to uncover the memories hidden deep inside the villagers. Each filmmaker had some prior relationship to the village. Some of them were born or grew up there, some still live there, and some had never lived in the village but had parents or grandparents who had. For the old people in the village, this was the first time anyone had come with a camera to ask them to open their memory chests. Here was the younger generation, leaping over their parents’ generation-- that generation wiped clean of memory- to ask the elders about the past. This meeting may be awkward and uncomfortable but it is also an exciting adventure. Their stories are now documentary films presented in this program. Excerpts from interviews with each filmmaker shown at the beginning. Co-sponsored by the Department of Performing & Media Arts and the Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum Grant.Cornell East Asia Program and the Department of Performing & Media Arts1_kaky17o

REALIZATION OF 650 NM FIBER-COUPLED DIODE LASERS MODULE WITH OUTPUT BEAM REDIRECTION FOR APPLICATION IN PHOTOTHERAPY AND PHOTODYNAMIC INACTIVATION OF BACTERIALS

Currently, diode lasers in the red wavelength region, especially at 650 nm, are extensively utilized in phototherapy and photodynamic inactivation of bacterials by numerous research groups in the field of lasers for biomedical application. These devices offer exceptional advantages, such as their compact size, ease of design and integration, user-friendliness, and high safety for both operators and patients. Among these, fiber-coupled diode lasers provide an efficient solution for delivering radiation from the laser chip to the desired location. However, further optimization is still required for the fabrication technological development of these devices to meet specific application needs. This includes aspects like reducing manufacturing costs, improving component usability during operation, and meeting specialized usage requirements. To develop the technology for device fabrication, addressing the aforementioned demands, we conducted research on the design, fabrication, and characterization of fiber-coupled semiconductor lasers operating at a wavelength of 650 nm. The characterization results demonstrate that the manufactured devices can operate at maximal pumping current of 100 mA and under varying temperatures from 25oC to 40oC. Additionally, a radiation output orientation module has been designed and integrated at the end of the optical fiber to meet various demands in phototherapy and photodynamic inactivation of bacterials