| The electroplater:
. . . .
Preliminary purification
Before the refinement, the most important step
in electroplating is the cleaning of the piece. „Before work
can be started, the material the piece is made of needs to be ascertained“,
explains Yildirim (electroplater). „Because even if something
looks like copper at first glance, it could be an alloy of different
materials“. Only once the composition has been ascertained by
a delivery order or analysis the chemical baths can be prepared. .
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(Helen Weiss, Baths supervisor for metals, Basler Zeitung 8. January
2007;)
A thing that’s self evident for any craftsman
and in production, should be even more self evident in science. But
due to decades of bad experiences, Rudolf Ziegelbecker had to file
the following request:
Rudolf Ziegelbecker 20. September 2001
Peterstalstraße 29, A-8042 Graz
Tel/Fax ++43316 471128 e-mail: ziegelbecker.sen@utanet.at
To the directorate and conference of members 2001 of the RoeS-IBS
*
Due to it’s currency I propose the following application:
1. Members of the ROeS are often consulted for statements and/or reports
by government agencies, courts and companies. For this they are often
supplied with data which they have not worked on themselves.
I suggest creating recommendations after which ROeS-members are required
to check the data and its origins thoroughly, if necessary by acquiring
further data and information, before these are used to run statistical
processes and tests and draw scientifically substantiated conclusions
from them.
2. In 1997, the German Research Community (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
DFG) has founded an internationally based commission “Self control
in Science" and published their recommendations in 1998 in the
form of an exposé "Suggestions to ensure good scientific
practice”.
I suggest to acquire this exposé (free from DFG Referat Presse
und Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit, D-53170 Bonn, Tel. 0228 885-2119/2109/Fax
0228 885-2180) and supply each member of ROeS with a copy.
3. Point 2 of my application of September 30th 1999 in Basle was published
in the ROeS-news No 36 of February 2000; the important point 1 was
not mentioned though. I have not heard anything since them and my
query to the president of ROeS of August the 5th 2001 has so far remained
unanswered.
I therefore place the following request: clarification on the current
state of treatment of my application at the member conference 1999,
as well as to put point 1 of my application up for discussion by the
member conference in 2001 in order to charge them with formulating
recommendations to this.
Rudolf Ziegelbecker, eh.
* ROeS-IBS = Region Oesterreich-Schweiz of the International Biometric
Society
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