Essays on Avalanche

The butterfly effect is a term that a lot of people are familiar with, thanks to its extensive use in the modern culture. The main idea behind the effect is that small, barely noticeable changes in the system can cause drastic changes on the global scale. Though the concept has been used extensively in movies, books and other forms of media, its modern origins are purely scientific. The term was coined by a famous mathematician Edward Lorenz, who discovered it while working on his weather forecast system. So, what has he learned exactly and how this effect could be ...

Avalanche

Summary

Avalanches pose grave risks to the lives of human beings. People who have the misfortune to get stuck in the path of an avalanche have a 50% chance of survival. The remaining 50% either suffocate beneath the layers of snow that the avalanche brings in its wake, or die of trauma caused by the weight of snow and debris. In every century, there are, on an average, two large-scale avalanches. Of all types of avalanches, the dry slab avalanche is the most dangerous. The dry slab avalanches are responsible for nearly 90% of the deaths that occur due to ...

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks is an endeavor to make computer resources unavailable to the legitimate users. A DoS attack will try to consume as much resources as it can so as to deny legitimate users the chance of having services or resources available to them. There are several categories of DoS attacks. The DoS attacks are not the same in terms of how they are perpetrated. Depending on the method of perpetration, one category of DoS can be easy or hard to stop. 1 A denial of service attack involves sending numerous communication requests to the ...