“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

The world’s species are in worse trouble than widely-assumed, according to a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which reevaluates how scientists estimate ...

Land fragmentation is a significant issue in Pakistan, where agricultural land is divided into smaller and smaller plots over generations. In Punjab, the most agriculturally productive region of ...

Fragmentation is often cited as a major challenge for the Linux platform and mobile software ecosystem. The word gets thrown around a lot and tends to be used as a catch-all phrase to describe a wide ...

In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, ...

As policymakers and business leaders gather at the World Economic Forum in Davos, they are facing a Gordian knot of challenges . From the global economic slowdown and climate change to the ...

What is the state of psychology today? In some ways the field is thriving. According to the Princeton Review, it ranks as the second most popular undergraduate major. Progress is being made in ...