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Dr. Mansourian is a medical graduate from the University of Cairo & Lusanne. pursued his postgraduate training in the University of London (biomedical engineering, neurophysiology, and epidemiology) before joining WHO in 1969, with the Division of Research in Epidemiology & Communication Science. A few years later he was appointed to the Office of Science and Technology, an advisory unit to the Director General. He continued with that office (subsequently renamed Research, Promotion, and Development), serving as its Director from 1994 until retirement (1998). He published original work in a wide range of fields including neurophysiology, medical informatics, systems analysis (transfer function of the vestibulo-ocular control system), and epidemiology (digital filters and pattern recognition techniques in epidemiological variables). He served as Secretary of WHO’s Advisory Committee on Health Research, & participated closely with that body in the formulation of research strategies & policy principles for the Organization during the 1980s and 1990s. He is an elected member of the US Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1968), the Belgian Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences (1998), and the City and Guilds of London Institute (1999). He is also a member of the Royal Society of Medicine, the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Public Health Association, and the International Epidemiological Association.
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The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)
The first Earth Summit of 1992, held in Rio de Janeiro, issued a document
( that is now famous as Agenda 21), which refers to life support systems, considering the whole of our planet as a grand intensive care unit which supports all forms of life. The EOLSS has been inspired by this concept.
As a matter of fact, initial concerns about the environmemt had been thoroughly discussed at the Stockholm Conference, twenty years earlier.
Thanks to a team of visionaries, co-sponsored by UNESCO, the EOLSS project was hatched and elaborated during all these years, formally launched in 1996, and came to fruition in time for the Johannesburg Conference in 2002.
The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (www.eolss.net ) is an integrated compendium of sixteen web-based encyclopedias.
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- EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
- MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
- BIOLOGICAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES
- SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
- PHYSICAL SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
- CHEMICAL SCIENCES ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
- WATER SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
- ENERGY SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
- ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
- FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
- HUMAN RESOURCES POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
- NATURAL RESOURCES POLICY AND MANAGEMENT
- DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES
- INSTITUTIONAL AND INFRASTRUCTURAL RESOURCES
- TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION AND SYSTEM MANAGEMENT RESOURCES
- REGIONAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REVIEWS
It attempts to forge pathways between disciplines in order to show their interdependence and helps foster the transdisciplinary aspects of the relationship between nature and human society. It deals in detail with interdisciplinary subjects, but it is also disciplinary as each major core subject is covered in great depth, by world experts.
The EOLSS is the result of an unprecedented global effort and a decade of planning. The leading experts who have contributed to this state-of-the-art publication come from diverse fields.
Best efforts are being made to make the EOLSS widely accessible to the global public.
The Encyclopedia is designed to be a guide and reference for a wide range of users: from natural and social scientists to engineers, economists, educators, university students and professors, conservationists, entrepreneurs, law and policy-makers.
The EOLSS project is coordinated by the UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee.
EOLSS covers about 200 themes, each managed by an internationally recognized expert in the field. Chapters are now in excess of 5000 .
Teams of experts are working to regularly update the various sections of the web-based encyclopedia, making EOLSS a living library. The EOLSS has already grown to some 60 million words, equivalent to more than 100,000 standard pages, and several thousand tables, graphics, boxes, and photographs. Soon, it will mature to its full size of about 70 million words (equivalent to about 200 volumes) .
A recent initiative seeks to translate EOLSS into the six official UN languages, using modern computer technology, and an expert group is currently developing this project.
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