scholarly journals BIM adoption across the Chinese AEC industries: An extended BIM adoption model

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane M. Herr ◽  
Thomas Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Extended Model ◽  
International Context ◽  
Accurate Representation ◽  
Detailed Survey ◽  
The World ◽  
Adoption Model

Abstract Despite strong encouragement by government guidelines and promoting efforts by the software industry, BIM is adopted at relatively slow speeds in construction industries across the world. The study presented in this paper examines the challenges to BIM adoption faced specifically in the Chinese construction industry across architecture, engineering and construction. We review recent literature addressing BIM adoption in the international context and develop a critique of common approaches to describe processes of BIM adoption. Substantiated with the analysis of detailed survey data obtained from AEC professionals in the greater Shanghai area, we propose a new, extended model to describe and assess processes of BIM adoption. Utilising this model, we evaluate temporal and collaborative dimensions of BIM adoption, and present results from detailed survey data. We further discuss how current Chinese BIM adoption in practice diverges from overseas BIM adoption strategies and examine how the extended BIM adoption model can provide a more accurate representation of BIM adoption processes observed in practice in and beyond the context of the Chinese AEC industries. Highlights BIM adoption across the Chinese AEC industries is still uneven and over reported. Chinese AEC industries' BIM adoption differs from overseas models. An extended BIM adoption model allows charting BIM adoption along AEC workflows. BIM is adapted for linear Chinese workflows rather than collaborative work.

scholarly journals Aspects Concerning the Fabrication of Magnetorheological Fluids Containing High Magnetization FeCo Nanoparticles

Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Jon Gutiérrez ◽  
Virginia Vadillo ◽  
Ainara Gómez ◽  
Joanes Berasategi ◽  
Maite Insausti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Chemical Reduction ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Magnetorheological Fluid ◽  
Dipolar Interaction ◽  
Fabrication Process ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Strong Trend ◽  
Magnetic Dipolar Interaction ◽  
Feco Nanoparticles

Recently, our collaborative work in the fabrication of a magnetorheological fluid (MRF) containing high magnetization FeCo nanoparticles (NPs, fabricated in our laboratories using the chemical reduction technique; MS = 212 Am2/kg) as magnetic fillers have resulted in a new MRF with superior performance up to 616.7 kA/m. The MRF had a yield stress value of 2729 Pa and good reversibility after a demagnetization process. This value competes with the best ones reported in the most recent literature. Nevertheless, the fabrication process of this type of fluid is not an easy task since there is a strong trend to the aggregation of the FeCo NPs due to the strong magnetic dipolar interaction among them. Thus, now we present the analysis of some aspects concerning the fabrication process of our FeCo NPs containing MRF, mainly the type of surfactant used to cover those NPs (oleic acid or aluminium stearate) and its concentration, and the procedure followed (mechanical and/or ultrasound stirring) to achieve a good dispersion of those magnetic fillers within the fluid.

scholarly journals Using Open Source, Open Data, and Civic Technology to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic and Infodemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinji Kobayashi ◽  
Luis Falcón ◽  
Hamish Fraser ◽  
Jørn Braa ◽  
Pamod Amarakoon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Health Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Civic Technology

Objectives: The emerging COVID-19 pandemic has caused one of the world’s worst health disasters compounded by social confusion with misinformation, the so-called “Infodemic”. In this paper, we discuss how open technology approaches - including data sharing, visualization, and tooling - can address the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic. Methods: In response to the call for participation in the 2020 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook theme issue on Medical Informatics and the Pandemic, the IMIA Open Source Working Group surveyed recent works related to the use of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) for this pandemic. Results: FLOSS health care projects including GNU Health, OpenMRS, DHIS2, and others, have responded from the early phase of this pandemic. Data related to COVID-19 have been published from health organizations all over the world. Civic Technology, and the collaborative work of FLOSS and open data groups were considered to support collective intelligence on approaches to managing the pandemic. Conclusion: FLOSS and open data have been effectively used to contribute to managing the COVID-19 pandemic, and open approaches to collaboration can improve trust in data.

scholarly journals Factors driving employee participation in corporate BYOD programs: A cross-national comparison from the perspective of future employees

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuequn Wang ◽  
Andy Weeger ◽  
Heiko Gewald
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Bring Your Own Device ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
The World ◽  
Intention To Participate ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
Global Operations ◽  
Cross National

As individuals all around the world increasingly use mobile devices in their daily life, their desire to use the same devices in the workplace continuously grows. In response, organizations are more and more allowing their employees to use their own devices for both business and private purposes and offer so called ‘Bring-your-own-Device’ (BYOD) programs. For organizations with global operations there is a need to examine the drivers of BYOD demand across different national cultures to assess how to develop a successful BYOD program. Based on recent literature on BYOD, we examine how different factors contribute to employees’ behavioural intention to participate in a BYOD program across different national cultures. The model was examined by surveying students from China, Germany and U.S. in their final term. The results show significant cross-cultural differences, particularly regarding the 'Perceived Threats'. Overall this study offers novel insights for cross cultural BYOD implementations.

scholarly journals Construction Sector Contribution to Economic Stability: Malaysian GDP Distribution

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5012
Author(s):  
Wesam Salah Alaloul ◽  
Muhammad Ali Musarat ◽  
Muhammad Babar Ali Rabbani ◽  
Qaiser Iqbal ◽  
Ahsen Maqsoom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Impulse Response Function ◽  
Equilibrium Analysis ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Vector Error Correction ◽  
The World ◽  
Pearson Correlation Test

The construction sector exerts an exceptional impact on economic development all over the world. Adequate buildings and infrastructures made by the construction sector ensure that a country reaches certain targets like social development, industrialization, freight transportation, sustainable development, and urbanization. This study aims to determine the construction sector’s connectivity with other sectors through complex linkages that contribute immensely to the economy and gross domestic product (GDP). The data were collected from the Department of Statistics Malaysia and the World Bank from the year 1970 to 2019, and the Pearson correlation test, the cointegration test, and the Granger causality test were conducted. The vector error correction model (VECM) was created for short-term and long-term equilibrium analysis and impulse response function (IRF) was performed to study construction industry behavior. Afterwards, the forecasting was done for the year 2020 to 2050 of the Malaysian economy and GDP for the required sectors. It was revealed that some sectors, such as agriculture and services, have forward linkages while other sectors, such as manufacturing and mining, are independent of construction sector causality, which signifies the behavior of the contributing sectors when a recession occurs, hence generating significant revenue. The Malaysian economy is moving towards sustainable production with more emphasis on the construction sector. The outcome can be used as a benchmark by other countries to achieve sustainable development. The significance of this study is its usefulness for experts all over the world in terms of allocating resources to make the construction sector a sustainable sector after receiving a shock. A sustainable conceptual framework has been suggested for global application that shows the factors involved in the growth of the construction industry to ensure its sustainable development with time.

Strategic Thinking of Construction Material Based on Ecology

2010 ◽  
Vol 150-151 ◽  
pp. 1199-1202
Author(s):  
Hui Pang ◽  
Bing Zhao ◽  
Xiao Min He
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Energy Structure ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Gas Emission ◽  
Green House Gas ◽  
The World ◽  
New Energy ◽  
New Construction

Chinese government has announced to the world that, the carbon emission will decrease by 40-45% in 2020, after the World Climate Summit in 2009. To ensure people’s living quality, while limit the green house gas emission, the construction industry - a big energy consumer - must endeavor to explore new construction method, research and develop new construction material and use new energy structure to make our promise come true.

scholarly journals A Study of "Spread?F" Ionospheric Echoes at Night at Brisbane. III. Frequency Spreading

1957 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
DG Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Fine Structure ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Seasonal Distribution ◽  
The World ◽  
Diurnal Distribution ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Spread F ◽  
Pronounced Peak

Virtual range versus frequency (P'f) records of the ionosphere made at Brisbane (lat. 27�5 �S., long. 152�9 �E.) during 1952 and 1953 have been examined. It is found that occasionally neither the o nor the x mode of propagation penetrates the F2 layer at a unique frequency, the upward sweeping traces either being blurred out over a range of penetration frequencies (diffuseness) or possessing a fine structure (penetration-frequency multiplicity). Temporal analysis of the occurrence of these. effects reveals that they occur only at night; penetration-frequency multiplicity appearing more frequently in the hours before dawn, while the diurnal distribution of diffuseness has a maximum between 0100 and 0500 hr in summer and represents a more even distribution between 2100 and 0500 hr in winter. The seasonal distribution has a pronounced peak in the winter months and minima in the equinoctial months. These data are compared with the world-wide picture of these variations as it has emerged from the recent literature.

scholarly journals The maturity assessment of hospital information systems based on Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model – A comparison between private and governmental hospitals

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masarat Ayat ◽  
Mohammad Sharifi ◽  
Maryam Jahanbakhsh
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Medical Record ◽  
Electronic Medical Record ◽  
National Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Hospital Information Systems ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
The World ◽  
Adoption Model ◽  
Electronic Medical Record Adoption

Today, Information Technology (IT) is considered as one of the major national development principles in each country which is applied in different fields. One of the most important fields in which IT is applied is health care and hospitals are similarly considered as most substantial organizations that use IT vastly. Although, different benchmarks and frameworks were developed to assess different aspects of Hospital Information Systems (HIS), still there was no reference model to benchmark HIS in the world until very recently. Eventually, Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) which is globally a well-known model to benchmark the rate of HIS utilization in the hospitals, were emerged. Nevertheless, this model has not been introduced in majority of developing and even some developed countries in the world yet. In this study, EMRAM is applied to benchmark both governmental and private hospitals in Iran. This research is based on an applied descriptive method to assess five governmental and three private hospitals in Isfahan in 2015. This province is one of the most important provinces of Iran. The results reveal that HIS is not at the center of concern in these hospitals and are in the first and second maturity stages in accordance with EMRAM. Therefore, these types of hospitals are far away from desirable conditions and stages. Yet, the immaturity of HISs in private hospitals is more observable. This situation including the pressure of different beneficiaries such as insurance companies, has forced hospital managers to develop and enhance their HISs, especially in governmental hospitals.

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