Torpid MPs

Are torpid bats immune to anthropogenic noise?

Anthropogenic noise has a negative impact on a variety of animals. However, many bat species roost in places with high levels of anthropogenic noise. Here, we tested the hypothesis that torpid bats are insensitive to anthropogenic noise. In a laboratory experiment, we recorded skin temperature (Tsk) of bats roosting individually that were subjected to playbacks of different types of noise. We f...

ERNDIM MPS Pilot Study

The ERNDIM Urine Mucopolysaccharide scheme is aiming at (1) provision of urine samples obtained from confirmed MPS patients to enable laboratories to gain or maintain experience to identify MPS patients and (2) proficiency testing of laboratories providing urine screening of mucopolysaccharidosis. The scheme is organised by Erasmus Medical Centre (Rotterdam, NL) in conjunction with SKML, the Du...

OA@MPS - a colourful view

The open access agenda of the Max Planck Society, initiator of the Berlin Declaration, envisions the support of both the green way and the golden way to open access. For the implementation of the green way the Max Planck Society through its newly established unit (Max Planck Digital Library) follows the idea of providing a centralized technical platform for publications and a local support for ...

Maximal Poisson - Disk Sampling ( MPS )

Embedded Software Development with MPS

Embedded software is usually implemented in C. The language is relatively close to the hardware, allowing efficient machine code. A large number of compilers exist for many different target platforms and (embedded) operating systems. However, using C also its problems. For example, it has a number of features that are considered unsafe, such as void pointers, unions and (certain) automatic type...