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Research Reports: (1978) UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Research Report 1978 University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria 3052 UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Research Report 1978 University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria 3052 A summary of departmental research activities and investigations, including published contributions to science and literature, during the research year, January 1 to December 31, 1978 CONTENTS Reports from departments connected with faculties are placed in alphabetical order under faculty headings. Reports from departments not connected with faculties are then placed in their own alphabetical order. AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY I ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND TOWN & REGIONAL PLANNING Architecture and Building 11 Town and Regional Planning 14 ARTS Classical Studies 15 Criminology 17 East Asian Studies 19 English 20 Fine Arts 23 French 25 Geography 27 Germanic Studies 30 History 32 History and Philosophy of Science 38 Indian Studies 41 Indonesian and Malayan Studies 42 Italian 43 Middle Eastern Studies 44 Philosophy 47 Political Science 49 Psychology 52 Russian 58 The Horwood Language Centre 59 DENTAL SCIENCE Conservative Dentistry 60 Dental Medicine and Surgery 62 Dental Prosthetics 64 ECONOMICS AND COMMERCE Accounting 66 Economic History 68 Economics 69 Graduate School of Business Administration 73 Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research 75 Legal Studies 80 Regional and Urban Economic Studies 81 EDUCATION 82 Centre for the Study of Higher Education 91 ENGINEERING Chemical Engineering 93 Civil Engineering 96 Electrical Engineering 103 Industrial Science 107 Mechanical Engineering 108 Mining and Metallurgy 113 Surveying 116 LAW 117 MEDICINE Anatomy 121 Biochemistry 123 Community Health 129 Medical Biology (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) 130 Medical History 137 Medicine (Austin Hospital and Repatriation General Hospilal) 138 Medicine (Dept. of the James Stewart Professor, Royal Melbourne Hospital) 147 Medicine (St Vincent's Hospital) 153 Microbiology 157 Obstetrics and Gynaecology 161 Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Mercy and Austin Hospitals) 163 Ophthalmology 165 Otolaryngology 167 Paediatrics 169 Pathology 173 Pathology (Austin Hospital) 175 Pharmacology 177 Physiology 180 Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine 184 Psychiatry 189 Radiology 193 Surgery (Austin Hospital and Repatriation General Hospital) 194 Surgery (Dept. of The Hugh Devine Professor, St Vincent's Hospital) 197 Surgery (Dept. of The James Stewart Professor, Royal Melbourne Hospital) 200 MUSIC 203 SCIENCE Botany 205 Chemistry 213 Computer Science 222 Genetics 224 Geology 227 Human Movement Studies 234 Mathematics 235 Meteorology 241 Optometry 245 Physics 248 R.A.A.F. Academy — Chemistry 257 - Mathematics 257 - Physics 258 Statistics 260 Zoology 262 VETERINARY SCIENCE Veterinary Clinical Sciences 266 Veterinary Paraclinical Sciences 270 Veterinary Preclinical Sciences 274 Centre for Environmental Studies 276 Social Studies 280 Archives 283 The Library 285 Student Health Service 287 University Assembly 288 ABBREVIATIONS The abbreviations of thc titles of journals used in the lists of Published Work are based on those given in World List of Scientific Periodicals published in the vears 1900- 1960 (4th edition, 1963). INTRODUCTION The Research Report for 1978 follows the form adopted for 1977 in being more concise than in former years. The change has been generally welcomed, mainly on the grounds that although individual projects are no longer described in detail it is now easier to discern the general scope of research activity in each department, and the broad fields within which the projects fall. Although the Report is now a smaller volume.-it hardly competes in compactness with the Australian Research Directory, the first edition of which has been published by the Department of Science solely in microfiche. The Directory is an important innovation, though one difficult to bring to fruition. It is too soon yet to be sure that such a survey of research (within defined fields) for the whole of Australia will be sufficiently complete and up-to-date to be readily useful. Total expenditure on research in the University of Melbourne, as calculated for the Tertiary Education Commission, rose from S10 million in 1977 to more than SI 1 million in 1978. Research- related expenditure from other University funds would greatly increase the totals. This level of support has been won with great difficulty in adverse circumstances, and the small increase in the total conceals significant shifts in thc availability of support between disciplines and fields of inquiry. In particular, basic or fundamental research, however defined, is increasingly difficult to fund, and the few new sources of support for some areas of applied research which have emerged in the past few years have not helped those basic disciplines which must remain the core of any major university's research activities. The skilled entrepreneurship which has won support for much important applied research in the University cannot be similarly exercised in fields in which there is no immediate outside interest in supporting the work. Within the University, the procedures by which funds in support of research arc distributed to individuals and departments were examined during 1978 by the Committee on Research and Graduate Studies. In the main, the usefulness of the existing programmes survived a critical scrutiny, though it became evident that thc University will need to devise some new procedures to maintain impetus in research in areas of particular excellence and public need. That there arc many such projects within the extraordinary variety of research activities pursued in the University this volume attests. J R. Poynter Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) 30th May, 1979. AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY Chairman of department: Professor N. McC. Tulloh A. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS Head of section: Professor A. G. Lloyd Professor ALAN GRAHAME LLOYD Senior Lecturers NEIL HENRY STURGESS ALISTAIR STUART WATSON Tutor Vacant RESEARCH TOPICS IN PROGRESS 1. Farm financial management and payment systems for agricultural products. 2. Stabilization of farm incomes. 3. Land leasing and tenure arrangements in East Java. 4. Wheat supply. 5. An economic study of the Victorian scallop fishing. 6. Energy policy. PUBLISHED WORK Chapters of Books 1. EDWARDS, G. W. and WATSON, A.S. - Agricultural Policy, in Surveys of Australian Economics, Volume I - ed F. H. Gruen for the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, pp. 187-240, George Allen and Unwin, Sydney (1978). 2. LLOYD, A. G. - Energy, Agriculture and the Built Environment: Economic Reality in Energy, Agriculture and the Built Environment - Towards an Integrative Perspective, ed R. King, pp. 25-36. Melb Uni Centre for Environmental Studies (1978). Articles 1. ALAOUZE, C. M., WATSON, A. E. and STURGESS. N. H. - Oligopoly Pricing in the World Wheat Market, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 60(2): 173-185 (1978). 2. ALAOUZE, C. M. STURGESS, N. H. and WATSON, A. S. - Australian Wheat Storage: A Dynamic Programming Approach, Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics 22(3): (1978). 3. CLARK, J. H., STURGESS, N. H., WILTON, J. W. and STONE, P. M. - A Simulation Model to Evaluate the Time-Quantity Response in Specialized White Veal Production, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 26(2): 1-17 (1978). THESIS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES Master of Agricultural Science 1. BELIN, P. — An economic study of the Victorian scallop fishery THESES IN PROGRESS PhD Thesis in Progress WIJAYA, H. — Land leasing and tenure arrangements in East Java MAgrSc Theses in Progress READ, P. M. — Farm financial management and payment systems for agricultural products BRENNAN, J. — Stabilization of farm incomes - supply response and risk KENT, M. — Stabilization of farm incomes — financial aspects SUBSTANTIAL GRANTS RECEIVED Grants have been received as follows: Rural Credits Development Fund, Reserve Bank:Two grants for topics 1, 2 and 3 above. Fisheries Research Fund, Victorian Division of Fisheries and Wildlife: For topic 5. 1 2 FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY B. AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION Head of section: Dr H. S. Hawkins Senior Lecturers HENRY STUART HAWKINS HARTLEY ARNOLD PRESSER Lecturer JOHN WILLIAM CARY Senior Research Fellow PETER WILLIAM SALMON Research Fellows LEON LOFTUS JAMES ERNEST McALLISTER RUTH ELLEN WESTON Research Assistants ROBERT ANDREW PATTERSON (until 23/6/78) CANAPATHIP1LLAI SRI-PATHMANATHAN RESEARCH PROJECTS IN PROGRESS 1. Development of adult educational models for farm management. 2. Psychological stress factors in the dairy industry. 3. Impact of regional planning schemes on adjacent rural areas of large cities and rural towns. 4. Personal psychology of change in management. 5. Farm management adjustment strategies. 6. Occupational mobility of farmers. PUBLISHED WORK 1. CARY, J. W. and WESTON, R. E. - Social Stress in Agriculture - The Implications of Rapid Economic Change. School of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Melbourne (1978). 2. SRI-PATHMANATHAN, C. - Agricultural Extension Research Project Abstracts - 1966- 78. School of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Melbourne (1978). 3. SRI-PATHMANATHAN, C. - The Training Needs of Agri-business - a Commodity Systems Approach. School of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Melbourne (1978). 4. PATTERSON, R. A. - 77je Role of Agricultural Consultants in the Rural Industry. School of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Melbourne (1978). 5. SALMON, P. W. and BOCK, I. M. - Rural Community Attitudes
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