Browsing by Author "Fang, Zheng"

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    A dynamic hydraulic floodplain map prediction tool for flood alert in a coastal urban watershed considering storm surge issues
    (2008) Fang, Zheng; Bedient, Philip B.
    Flood Alert System (FAS2) incorporates adjusted real-time NEXRAD radar data, GIS, hydrologic models and the Internet to provide advanced warning to the Texas Medical Center (TMC) in Houston, Texas. It has been tested during 2006 season with excellent performance and was used as a platform to develop a real-time hydraulic prediction tool---the Floodplain Map Library (FPML) system. FPML provides inundation maps in near real time linking with NEXRAD radar over the watershed. FPML is also compatible with storm surge input in order to predict inundation maps during extreme coastal weather conditions, which will improve emergency personnel's ability to initiate evacuation strategies at many levels.
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    Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for predicting a hybridization rate constant of a first sequence
    (2022-10-18) Zhang, Xuemeng; Fang, Zheng; Wu, Ruojia; Duan, Wei; Zhang, David; Rice University; William Marsh Rice University; United States Patent and Trademark Office
    Embodiments of methods, systems, and tangible non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions are presented. A method includes calculating a plurality of feature values for a number of bioinformatic features of the desired hybridization reaction; and calculating distances between the plurality of feature values and corresponding database rate constant values stored in a database, the database comprising a plurality of hybridization reactions having known rate constants. The method additionally includes calculating a weighted average of a logarithm of the database rate constant values, with larger weights assigned to value instances having values lower in distance to the plurality of feature values of the desired hybridization reaction; and providing the weighted average as a predicted logarithm of the rate constant of the desired hybridization reaction.