American University of Sharjah

Prioritizing sustainable practices for decarbonizing construction SMEs: an actionable roadmap for capability development in developing economies

Purpose As the construction sector strives to meet global climate targets, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies represent a critical yet often overlooked frontier for decarbonization. Despite their significant role, construction SMEs face barriers suc...

A systematic review of the fabrication and mechanical properties of 3D-printed composite clay bricks

This review investigates recent developments in 3D-printed composite clay bricks, with a particular focus on material innovation, geometric refinement, and mechanical performance. A systematic review supported by bibliometric analysis of seventy peer-reviewed publications from 20...

Tail risk of Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies: a distributional and extreme-value analysis

Abstract We study the distributional and tail-risk properties of Bitcoin and the major cryptocurrencies using daily returns from June 2014 to May 2026. For a panel of 10 assets we fit a family of heavy-tailed distributions by maximum likelihood, rank them by the Akaike and Bayesi...

The joint effects of digital transformation technologies and human lean practices on firm performance: an empirical investigation

Purpose This study examines how human lean practices (HLP), Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies, technical lean practices (TLP), operational performance (OP) and sustainable performance (SP) interact within the manufacturing sector of emerging economies under the constraints of a le...

A survey on secure and intelligent data transmission in fog IoT enabled smart farming environments

Fog computing is a decentralized computing paradigm that provides distributed computing capabilities closer to the edge devices. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a wireless network used for collecting and transmitting data over the internet. Fog computing and IoT together enhance...