Dr GRAZZIELA FIGUEREDO's Outputs (40)

The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review (2021)
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Majid, S., Reeves, S., Figueredo, G., Brown, S., Lang, A., Moore, M., & Morriss, R. (2021). The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review. JMIR Mental Health, 8(12), Article e27991. https://doi.org/10.2196/27991

Background: The number of self-monitoring apps for bipolar disorder (BD) is increasing. The involvement of users in human-computer interaction (HCI) research has a long history and is becoming a core concern for designers working in this space. The a... Read More about The Extent of User Involvement in the Design of Self-tracking Technology for Bipolar Disorder: Literature Review.

Machine learning to determine the main factors affecting creep rates in laser powder bed fusion (2021)
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Sanchez, S., Rengasamy, D., Hyde, C. J., Figueredo, G. P., & Rothwell, B. (2021). Machine learning to determine the main factors affecting creep rates in laser powder bed fusion. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 32(8), 2353–2373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-021-01785-0

There is an increasing need for the use of additive manufacturing (AM) to produce improved critical application engineering components. However, the materials manufactured using AM perform well below their traditionally manufactured counterparts, par... Read More about Machine learning to determine the main factors affecting creep rates in laser powder bed fusion.

Hypoalbuminemia in patients following their recovery from severe coronavirus disease 2019 (2021)
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Ali, K. M., Ali, A. M., Tawfeeq, H. M., Figueredo, G. P., & Rostam, H. M. (2021). Hypoalbuminemia in patients following their recovery from severe coronavirus disease 2019. Journal of Medical Virology, 93(7), 4532-4536. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmv.27002

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by a contagious virus that has spread to more than 200 countries, territories, and regions. Thousands of studies to date have examined all aspects of this disease, yet little is known about the postrecove... Read More about Hypoalbuminemia in patients following their recovery from severe coronavirus disease 2019.

Students’ views towards sars-cov-2 mass asymptomatic testing, social distancing and self-isolation in a university setting during the covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study (2021)
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Blake, H., Knight, H., Jia, R., Corner, J., Morling, J. R., Denning, C., Ball, J. K., Bolton, K., Figeuredo, G., Morris, D., Tighe, P., Villalon, A. M., Ayling, K., & Vedhara, K. (2021). Students’ views towards sars-cov-2 mass asymptomatic testing, social distancing and self-isolation in a university setting during the covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(8), Article 4182. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084182

We aimed to explore university students’ perceptions and experiences of SARS-CoV-2 mass asymptomatic testing, social distancing and self-isolation, during the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative study comprised of four rapid online focus groups condu... Read More about Students’ views towards sars-cov-2 mass asymptomatic testing, social distancing and self-isolation in a university setting during the covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study .

Discovery of synergistic material-topography combinations to achieve immunomodulatory osteoinductive biomaterials using a novel in vitro screening method: The ChemoTopoChip (2021)
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Burroughs, L., Amer, M., Vassey, M., Koch, B., Figueredo, G., Mukonoweshuro, B., Mikulskis, P., Vasilevich, A., Vermeulen, S., Dryden, I. L., Winkler, D. A., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., Rose, F. R. A. J., de Boer, J., & Alexander, M. R. (2021). Discovery of synergistic material-topography combinations to achieve immunomodulatory osteoinductive biomaterials using a novel in vitro screening method: The ChemoTopoChip. Biomaterials, 271, Article 120740. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.120740

© 2021 The Authors Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are widely represented in regenerative medicine clinical strategies due to their compatibility with autologous implantation. Effective bone regeneration involves crosstalk between macrophages an... Read More about Discovery of synergistic material-topography combinations to achieve immunomodulatory osteoinductive biomaterials using a novel in vitro screening method: The ChemoTopoChip.

Single-Cell Tracking on Polymer Microarrays Reveals the Impact of Surface Chemistry on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Twitching Speed and Biofilm Development (2020)
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Carabelli, A. M., Isgró, M., Sanni, O., Figueredo, G. P., Winkler, D. A., Burroughs, L., Blok, A. J., Dubern, J. F., Pappalardo, F., Hook, A. L., Williams, P., & Alexander, M. R. (2020). Single-Cell Tracking on Polymer Microarrays Reveals the Impact of Surface Chemistry on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Twitching Speed and Biofilm Development. ACS Applied Bio Materials, 3(12), 8471–8480. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.0c00849

© 2020 American Chemical Society. Bacterial biofilms exhibit up to 1000 times greater resistance to antibiotic or host immune clearance than planktonic cells. Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces retractable type IV pili (T4P) that facilitate twitching mo... Read More about Single-Cell Tracking on Polymer Microarrays Reveals the Impact of Surface Chemistry on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Twitching Speed and Biofilm Development.

Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration (2020)
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Vallieres, C., Hook, A. L., He, Y., Crucitti, V. C., Figueredo, G., Davies, C. R., Burroughs, L., Winkler, D. A., Wildman, R. D., Irvine, D. J., Alexander, M. R., & Avery, S. V. (2020). Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration. Science Advances, 6(23), Article eaba6574. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba6574

© 2020 The Authors. Fungi have major, negative socioeconomic impacts, but control with bioactive agents is increasingly restricted, while resistance is growing. Here, we describe an alternative fungal control strategy via materials operating passivel... Read More about Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration.

Immune-Instructive Polymers Control Macrophage Phenotype and Modulate the Foreign Body Response In Vivo (2020)
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Rostam, H. M., Fisher, L. E., Hook, A. L., Burroughs, L., Luckett, J. C., Figueredo, G. P., Mbadugha, C., Teo, A. C., Latif, A., Kämmerling, L., Day, M., Lawler, K., Barrett, D., Elsheikh, S., Ilyas, M., Winkler, D. A., Alexander, M. R., & Ghaemmaghami, A. M. (2020). Immune-Instructive Polymers Control Macrophage Phenotype and Modulate the Foreign Body Response In Vivo. Matter, 2(6), 1564-1581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.03.018

© 2020 The Author(s) Implantation of medical devices can result in inflammation. A large library of polymers is screened, and a selection found to promote macrophage differentiation towards pro- or anti-inflammatory phenotypes. The bioinstructive pro... Read More about Immune-Instructive Polymers Control Macrophage Phenotype and Modulate the Foreign Body Response In Vivo.

Immune Modulation by Design: Using Topography to Control Human Monocyte Attachment and Macrophage Differentiation (2020)
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Vassey, M. J., Figueredo, G. P., Scurr, D. J., Vasilevich, A. S., Vermeulen, S., Carlier, A., Luckett, J., Beijer, N. R., Williams, P., Winkler, D. A., de Boer, J., Ghaemmaghami, A. M., & Alexander, M. R. (2020). Immune Modulation by Design: Using Topography to Control Human Monocyte Attachment and Macrophage Differentiation. Advanced Science, 7(11), Article 1903392. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201903392

© 2020 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Macrophages play a central role in orchestrating immune responses to foreign materials, which are often responsible for the failure of implanted medical devices. Material t... Read More about Immune Modulation by Design: Using Topography to Control Human Monocyte Attachment and Macrophage Differentiation.

An innovative approach to multi-method integrated assessment modelling of global climate change (2020)
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Siebers, P. O., Lim, Z. E., Figueredo, G. P., & Hey, J. (2020). An innovative approach to multi-method integrated assessment modelling of global climate change. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 23(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4209

© 2020, University of Surrey. All rights reserved. Modelling and simulation play an increasingly significant role in exploratory studies for informing policy makers on climate change mitigation strategies. There is considerable research being done in... Read More about An innovative approach to multi-method integrated assessment modelling of global climate change.

Deep Learning with Dynamically Weighted Loss Function for Sensor-Based Prognostics and Health Management (2020)
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Rengasamy, D., Jafari, M., Rothwell, B., Chen, X., & Figueredo, G. P. (2021). Deep Learning with Dynamically Weighted Loss Function for Sensor-Based Prognostics and Health Management. Sensors, 20(3), Article 723. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20030723

Deep learning has been employed to prognostic and health management of automotive and aerospace with promising results. Literature in this area has revealed that most contributions regarding deep learning is largely focused on the model’s architectur... Read More about Deep Learning with Dynamically Weighted Loss Function for Sensor-Based Prognostics and Health Management.

Using agent-based modelling for investigating modal shift: The case of university travel (2019)
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Olusola, F. T., Siebers, P.-O., Faboya, O., Ryan, B., & Figueredo, G. P. (2020). Using agent-based modelling for investigating modal shift: The case of university travel. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 139, Article 106077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2019.106077

© 2019 Travel mode choices are a result of several factors and how they affect individual travellers. This paper examines those factors influencing travellers’ mode choices commuting to and from a university. Furthermore, we investigate how a shift t... Read More about Using agent-based modelling for investigating modal shift: The case of university travel.

PAS3-HSID: a Dynamic Bio-Inspired Approach for Real-Time Hot Spot Identification in Data Streams (2019)
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Tickle, R., Triguero, I., Figueredo, G. P., Mesgarpour, M., & John, R. I. (2019). PAS3-HSID: a Dynamic Bio-Inspired Approach for Real-Time Hot Spot Identification in Data Streams. Cognitive Computation, 11(3), 434–458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12559-019-09638-y

© 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. Hot spot identification is a very relevant problem in a wide variety of areas such as health care, energy or transportation. A hot spot is defined as a region of high likelihood o... Read More about PAS3-HSID: a Dynamic Bio-Inspired Approach for Real-Time Hot Spot Identification in Data Streams.

A Systemic Dynamics Model of Text Production (2019)
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Figueredo, G., & Figueredo, G. P. (2020). A Systemic Dynamics Model of Text Production. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 27(4), 291-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2019.1567301

This paper introduces a quantitative model of text as it unfolds in time. The model conceptualizes text as a functional unit of language. This organization can be difficult to identify because it forms complex patterns of linguistic laws, probability... Read More about A Systemic Dynamics Model of Text Production.

Identifying Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving Styles in the United Kingdom (2018)
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Figueredo, G. P., Agrawal, U., Mase, J., Mesgarpour, M., Wagner, C., Soria, D., Garibaldi, J. M., Siebers, P.-O., & John, R. (2019). Identifying Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving Styles in the United Kingdom. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 20(9), 3324-3336. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2018.2875343

Although driving behaviour has been largely studied amongst private motor vehicles drivers, the literature addressing heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers is scarce. Identifying the existing groups of driving stereotypes and their proportions enables re... Read More about Identifying Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving Styles in the United Kingdom.

An Immune-Inspired Technique to Identify Heavy Goods Vehicles Incident Hot Spots (2017)
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Figueredo, G. P., Triguero, I., Mesgarpour, M., Maciel Guerra, A., Garibaldi, J. M., & John, R. (2017). An Immune-Inspired Technique to Identify Heavy Goods Vehicles Incident Hot Spots. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 1(4), 248-258. https://doi.org/10.1109/TETCI.2017.2721960

We report on the adaptation of an immune-inspired instance selection technique to solve a real-world big data problem of determining vehicle incident hot spots. The technique, which is inspired by the Immune System self-regulation mechanism, was orig... Read More about An Immune-Inspired Technique to Identify Heavy Goods Vehicles Incident Hot Spots.

A signalome screening approach in the autoinflammatory disease TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) highlights the anti-inflammatory properties of drugs for repurposing (2017)
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Figueredo, G., Todd, I., Negm, O. H., Reps, J., Radford, P., Figueredo, G. P., McDermott, E. M., Drewe, E., Powell, R. J., Bainbridge, S., Hamed, M., Crouch, S., Garibaldi, J., St-Gallay, S., Fairclough, L. C., & Tighe, P. J. (2017). A signalome screening approach in the autoinflammatory disease TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) highlights the anti-inflammatory properties of drugs for repurposing. Pharmacological Research, 125, 188-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phrs.2017.08.012

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) is an autoinflammatory disease caused by mutations in TNF Receptor 1 (TNFR1). Current therapies for TRAPS are limited and do not target the pro-inflammatory signalling pathways tha... Read More about A signalome screening approach in the autoinflammatory disease TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) highlights the anti-inflammatory properties of drugs for repurposing.

Juxtaposition of System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for a Case Study in Immunosenescence (2015)
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Figueredo, G. P., Siebers, P.-O., Aickelin, U., Whitbrook, A., & Garibaldi, J. M. (2015). Juxtaposition of System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for a Case Study in Immunosenescence. PLoS ONE, 10(3), Article e0118359. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118359

Advances in healthcare and in the quality of life significantly increase human life expectancy. With the aging of populations, new un-faced challenges are brought to science. The human body is naturally selected to be well-functioning until the age o... Read More about Juxtaposition of System Dynamics and Agent-Based Simulation for a Case Study in Immunosenescence.

Comparing stochastic differential equations and agent-based modelling and simulation for early-stage cancer (2014)
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Figueredo, G. P., Siebers, P.-O., Owen, M. R., Reps, J., & Aickelin, U. (2014). Comparing stochastic differential equations and agent-based modelling and simulation for early-stage cancer. PLoS ONE, 9(4), Article e95150. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0095150

There is great potential to be explored regarding the use of agent-based modelling and simulation as an alternative paradigm to investigate early-stage cancer interactions with the immune system. It does not suffer from some limitations of ordinary d... Read More about Comparing stochastic differential equations and agent-based modelling and simulation for early-stage cancer.

Investigating mathematical models of immuno-interactions with early-stage cancer under an agent-based modelling perspective (2013)
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Figueredo, G. P., Siebers, P.-O., & Aickelin, U. (2013). Investigating mathematical models of immuno-interactions with early-stage cancer under an agent-based modelling perspective. BMC Bioinformatics, 14(Spl. 6), Article S6. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-S6-S6

Many advances in research regarding immuno-interactions with cancer were developed with the help of ordinary differential equation (ODE) models. These models, however, are not effectively capable of representing problems involving individual localisa... Read More about Investigating mathematical models of immuno-interactions with early-stage cancer under an agent-based modelling perspective.