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EDUCATION

industrial relations in the textile industry; effects of television viewing; medical statistics; economic and demographic analysis; industrial quality control; stock market research; discriminant analysis; Chinese customary law and legal history; and international commercial transactions and taxation. A new publication series, Hong Kong Manage- ment Papers, was inaugurated by the newly-established Department of Management Studies. Legal and statistical advice are among the services rendered by the university to the community.

In the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, research is being carried out on power apparatus and systems, electronics, solar energy, noise, mechanics, bio- engineering, soil and concrete, structural analysis, management, production and con- trol techniques, and computer applications, including computer-aided design and graphics in architectural studies.

Continuing projects in the Faculty of Science include the ecology of marine and freshwater organisms; pollution studies on Hong Kong roadside plants; cell and tissue culture of some local economically-important crop plants; investigations of agricultural pests; the physiology and metabolism of fish and its application in pond and mariculture; a survey of human and animal parasites; the endocrinology of re- production and foetal development; studies of local ionospheric, meteorological and cosmic ray phenomena; and the application of electrochemistry to plating and storage batteries. Investigations also are being carried out on fouling problems in freshwater pipelines and sea-water intakes. The Department of Chemistry is involved with studies of Hong Kong's atmosphere, particularly the amounts of sulphur dioxide, ozone, nitrogen oxide and solid particulates. The isolation of naturally-occurring substances from Hong Kong plant materials is continuing.

The Faculty of Medicine is engaged in many research projects of special significance to Hong Kong. They include studies on the growth and development of Chinese children; meningitis and other neuro-muscular disease in children; the role of hypo- coagulation in childhood cancers; temperament, parental expectations and social models affecting psychiatrically-disturbed Hong Kong children; a pilot screening project to determine the incidence of inborn errors of metabolism in Chinese newborn babies; correction of spinal deformities and disorders due to poliomyelitis; a pilot screening project to establish the incidence of limb and, especially, trunk deformities in Chinese school children; the pharmacology of Chinese medicinal herbs; changes in the pattern of disease in Hong Kong; common local occupational diseases; smoking and carcinoma of the lung; human influenza viruses; detection of carcinogenic substances in local food items; prevalence of diabetes mellitus and ischaemic heart disease; metabolic disturbances in narcotic addicts; early detection of heart disease; treatment of hypertension and various forms of heart failure; viral hepatitis, cirrhosis and cancer of the liver; common hereditary anaemias in the Chinese; immunological changes in collagen-vascular disorders; treatment of cancer of the oesophagus, liver and urinary bladder, and of malignant blood diseases; contraception; and psychiatric sequelae of therapeutic abortion and female homosexuality.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Chinese University of Hong Kong was inaugurated in 1963 as a federal univer- sity in which the principal language of instruction is Chinese. It is a self-governing