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(or equivalent reducing power).", "scope_statement": "This model owns anabolism as biological activity that builds molecular products from precursor materials, including its boundaries, material and energy requirements, regulation, biosynthetic flux and contribution to maintenance or accumulation.", "in_scope": [ "The biosynthetic transformation, its products and its biological location", "Precursor supply, material incorporation and competing uses", "Energy coupling and pathway-specific reducing-power requirements", "Biosynthetic machinery, regulation and limiting conditions", "Evidence of synthesis, concurrent degradation and resulting material balance" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Catabolism considered independently as breakdown and resource mobilisation", "Whole-organism growth and development beyond their biosynthetic contribution", "Nutrition, digestion and transport considered independently of precursor provision", "Gene expression considered independently of the biosynthetic activity 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"unit_or_values": "Pathway-specific energy carriers and reducing equivalents consumed per specified amount of product; unknown where unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Makes resource requirements explicit without assuming all anabolic routes use the same coupling." }, { "name": "Limiting condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Precursor-limited, energy-limited, reducing-power-limited, machinery-limited, regulatory constraint, multiple constraints or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Identifies what may restrict synthesis and what evidence an intervention would need." }, { "name": "Synthesis-degradation balance", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Synthesis and degradation rates on a shared material, time and normalisation basis", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes active replacement from net accumulation or net loss." }, { "name": "Activity evidence", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Measured flux, tracer-based inference, indirect molecular indicators, model prediction or 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its standing as IUPAC-standardized biochemical terminology.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "lehninger-principles", "title": "Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (Nelson and Cox)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Partition of metabolism into anabolism and catabolism; energy coupling (ATP, NADPH); and the major biosynthetic pathway classes (protein, nucleic acid, lipid, carbohydrate)." }, { "id": "go-0009058", "title": "Gene Ontology term GO:0009058 biosynthetic process", "url": "https://amigo.geneontology.org/amigo/term/GO:0009058", "what_it_supports": "The closest widely used ontology identifier for anabolic/biosynthetic processes and the practice of splitting them by chemical class (protein, lipid, carbohydrate, nucleic acid).", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "alberts-mboc", "title": "Molecular Biology of the Cell (Alberts et al.)", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "Cellular use of anabolism to build macromolecules and structures, and the distinction between biosynthesis and 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"Incorporation and allocation", "description": "The movement of precursor material into the specified products and competing destinations.", "findings": [ { "id": "material-fate", "name": "Material fate", "description": "Record evidence of incorporation and competing demands on the same material.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence traces precursor material into newly synthesised products?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "material-fate-q01" }, { "text": "Which competing pathways, storage pools or export routes affect the material available for this synthesis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "material-fate-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "energetic-and-redox-support", "name": "Energetic and redox support", "description": "How the biosynthetic route obtains the energetic and redox support it requires.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish pathway-specific resource demands from a generic assumption that all anabolism has identical energy requirements.", "layers": [ { "id": "biosynthetic-coupling", "name": "Biosynthetic coupling", "description": "The mechanisms and accounting boundary for energetically supported synthesis.", "findings": [ { "id": "energy-coupling-requirements", "name": "Energy coupling requirements", "description": "Record identified energy inputs and distinguish direct reaction costs from precursor preparation and supporting processes.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which reactions require energetic coupling, and which carriers, gradients or activated intermediates provide it?", "kind": "definition", "id": "energy-coupling-requirements-q01" }, { "text": "What energy demand per product is supported, and does its accounting include precursor activation and transport?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "energy-coupling-requirements-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reducing-power-and-regeneration", "name": "Reducing power and regeneration", "description": "Any reducing equivalents required by the route and the processes that replenish them.", "findings": [ { "id": "redox-resource-dependence", "name": "Redox resource dependence", "description": "Record whether reducing power is required and whether its supply constrains synthesis.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this route require reducing equivalents, and which donors and regeneration processes are established for this context?", "kind": "definition", "id": "redox-resource-dependence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a reducing-power constraint from precursor shortage or insufficient energy supply?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "redox-resource-dependence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "biosynthetic-capacity-and-control", "name": "Biosynthetic capacity and control", "description": "The machinery and regulatory conditions that permit or constrain synthesis.", "rationale": "Resource supply alone cannot establish anabolic activity or predict how it responds to a change.", "layers": [ { "id": "synthesis-machinery", "name": "Synthesis machinery", "description": "The route-specific catalysts, complexes and cellular organisation needed for product formation.", "findings": [ { "id": "functional-biosynthetic-capacity", "name": "Functional biosynthetic capacity", "description": "Record required machinery and separate its presence from demonstrated function.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which enzymes, molecular complexes and compartment arrangements are required for the specified synthesis?", "kind": "definition", "id": "functional-biosynthetic-capacity-q01" }, { "text": "What establishes that this machinery is functional rather than merely detectable?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "functional-biosynthetic-capacity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regulatory-response", "name": "Regulatory response", "description": "Signals, feedback and perturbations that alter the anabolic activity in its stated context.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-control-and-perturbation", "name": "Supported control and perturbation", "description": "Record evidence linking regulatory changes to synthesis and bound proposed interventions by that evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which nutrient signals, hormonal signals where applicable, feedback effects or cellular conditions have demonstrated effects on this route?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-control-and-perturbation-q01" }, { "text": "Which bounded perturbation could test the suspected constraint, and what synthesis readout, competing effects and stopping conditions would be monitored?", "kind": "action", "id": "supported-control-and-perturbation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "anabolic-flux-and-material-balance", "name": "Anabolic flux and material balance", "description": "Evidence that synthesis occurs and how it relates to product turnover and accumulation.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish biosynthetic rate, biosynthetic capacity and net material change before judging anabolic state.", "layers": [ { "id": "synthesis-rate-evidence", "name": "Synthesis rate evidence", "description": "Measurements and inference methods used to estimate formation of new product.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-biosynthetic-flux", "name": "Supported biosynthetic flux", "description": "Record the synthesis estimate with its measurement basis, assumptions and uncertainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the estimated synthesis rate, over which interval and with what units and normalisation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "supported-biosynthetic-flux-q01" }, { "text": "Which assay or model produced the estimate, and how were precursor labelling, recycling and compartment mixing handled where relevant?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-biosynthetic-flux-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "turnover-and-net-outcome", "name": "Turnover and net outcome", "description": "The relationship between synthesis, degradation, boundary flows and observed product-pool change.", "findings": [ { "id": "replacement-versus-accumulation", "name": "Replacement versus accumulation", "description": "Record whether biosynthesis supports turnover, net accumulation or synthesis during net loss.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do synthesis, degradation, import and export account for the observed change in the specified product pool?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "replacement-versus-accumulation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence support replacement, net accumulation or net loss, and what remains unresolved when degradation or boundary flows are unmeasured?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "replacement-versus-accumulation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Protein anabolism (amino-acid incorporation, translation, and net protein deposition, including muscle protein synthesis)", "Nucleic-acid anabolism (de novo and salvage nucleotide synthesis, DNA replication, RNA synthesis)", "Lipid anabolism (de novo lipogenesis, triglyceride assembly, cholesterogenesis, membrane-lipid synthesis)", "Carbohydrate anabolism (gluconeogenesis, glycogenesis, and glycan/polysaccharide synthesis)", "Autotrophic carbon anabolism (photosynthetic or chemosynthetic CO2 fixation into biomass)", "Nitrogen assimilation and amino-acid biosynthesis (inorganic N into organic N, distinct from later protein assembly)", "Bone-matrix anabolism (osteoanabolic formation of osteoid and mineral)", "Industrial/microbial biosynthetic anabolism (fermentation pathways used to make amino acids, organic acids, antibiotics, and other cell products)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of anabolism this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q184316", "note": "Item for anabolism as a biological process; confirm on Wikidata before treating as canonical in a registry." }, { "scheme": "Gene Ontology", "value_or_pattern": "GO:0009058", "note": "biosynthetic process - the standard GO parent for anabolic pathway terms; not a perfect synonym, because GO names the chemical construction rather than the energy-coupled physiological framing." }, { "scheme": "IUPAC Gold Book", "value_or_pattern": "anabolism", "note": "Controlled biochemical term in the IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology; Gold Book local codes are letter-plus-digits (A0xxxx) and should be taken from the live entry rather than guessed." }, { "scheme": "UniProt keyword", "value_or_pattern": "KW-0028", "note": "Biosynthesis - annotates proteins that participate in anabolic/biosynthetic pathways, not the process itself." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of anabolism this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology (Gold Book) and IUBMB/IUPAC Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature - terminology for anabolism, catabolism, and named biosynthetic pathways.", "NC-IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature - EC numbers for enzymes of anabolic pathways (issued by the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology).", "ESPEN and ASPEN clinical-nutrition guidelines (e.g. ICU protein/energy targets) - govern how an anabolic vs catabolic state is managed in feeding, not the biochemistry itself (European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism; American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition).", "WADA Prohibited List, class S1 Anabolic Agents - World Anti-Doping Agency; regulates substances used to drive anabolism in sport, not the metabolic process.", "Anabolic Steroid Control Act (United States) and equivalent national controlled-substance schedules - regulate anabolic-androgenic steroids as drugs, which are a neighbour of this concept rather than anabolism itself." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of anabolism this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Clinical nutrition and ICU care classify patients as net anabolic or catabolic (nitrogen balance, lean-mass change) and titrate protein and energy to restore anabolism after injury, sepsis, or surgery.", "Endocrinology and sports medicine treat muscle protein synthesis as the operational readout of anabolism, modulated by resistance exercise, amino acids, insulin, growth hormone, IGF-1, and androgens.", "Osteoporosis practice uses osteoanabolic drugs (e.g. teriparatide, romosozumab) to stimulate bone-matrix formation rather than only slow resorption.", "Oncology and cell biology treat tumour biomass accumulation as pathological anabolism (nucleotide, protein, and lipid synthesis supporting proliferation).", "Agriculture and industrial biotechnology exploit microbial and livestock anabolism for growth, milk/egg protein, and fermentation products.", "Inborn-error clinics diagnose failures of specific biosynthetic pathways (glycogen synthase deficiency, congenital disorders of glycosylation, pyrimidine-synthesis defects)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of anabolism this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Nitrogen balance (net anabolic vs catabolic state)", "typical_range": "Positive in anabolism; roughly 0 to +8 g N/day in recovering or growing adults, negative in catabolic illness (wide, diet- and illness-dependent)", "unit": "g N/day" }, { "quantity": "Mixed-muscle protein fractional synthesis rate (FSR)", "typical_range": "About 0.03-0.10 %/h in healthy adult muscle (fasted at the low end, fed/exercise-stimulated at the high end)", "unit": "%/h" }, { "quantity": "Whole-body protein synthesis/turnover", "typical_range": "Roughly 3-5 g protein per kg body mass per day in healthy adults; higher in infants and hypermetabolic illness", "unit": "g·kg⁻¹·day⁻¹" }, { "quantity": "Bone-formation marker PINP (intact N-terminal propeptide of type I collagen)", "typical_range": "On the order of 15-80 µg/L in adults, assay-, age-, and sex-dependent; rises under osteoanabolic therapy", "unit": "µg/L" }, { "quantity": "Contribution of de novo lipogenesis to circulating triglyceride", "typical_range": "Typically a few percent of VLDL-TG on mixed diets; can exceed ~20% with sustained high-carbohydrate overfeeding", "unit": "% of VLDL-TG" }, { "quantity": "ATP cost of peptide-bond formation / share of resting metabolism", "typical_range": "About 4 ATP equivalents per peptide bond; protein synthesis commonly ~15-25% of resting energy expenditure", "unit": "ATP equivalents per bond; % of REE" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of anabolism this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Anabolic resistance: aging, immobilization, inflammation, and critical illness blunt the muscle protein-synthesis response to amino acids and insulin, producing sarcopenia or ICU-acquired weakness despite feeding.", "Failed or insufficient anabolism: cachexia, failure to thrive, wound-healing failure, and osteoporosis when biosynthetic rates cannot match losses.", "Inborn errors of biosynthetic pathways: e.g. glycogen synthase deficiency (GSD 0), congenital disorders of glycosylation, and pyrimidine-synthesis defects (hereditary orotic aciduria) block specific anabolic routes.", "Pathological excess anabolism: neoplastic biomass accumulation; hepatic steatosis driven by de novo lipogenesis; obesity when lipid anabolism chronically exceeds oxidation.", "Refeeding syndrome: an abrupt shift into an anabolic state after starvation drives insulin-mediated uptake of phosphate, potassium, and magnesium and can cause hypophosphatemia, arrhythmia, and death.", "Pharmacologic drive of anabolism (anabolic-androgenic steroids): hepatotoxicity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, cardiomyopathy, hypogonadism, virilization, and psychiatric effects - hazards of stimulating the process, not of anabolism as such." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of anabolism this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "German-language biochemistry historically names the same split Baustoffwechsel (building metabolism) vs Betriebsstoffwechsel (energy/operating metabolism); Anabolismus is now also used.", "French and older European usage often treated assimilation as the constructive counterpart of dissimilation; anabolisme is the modern term.", "Russian and some Eastern European physiology texts still use \"plastic metabolism\" (пластический обмен) for anabolism.", "In global gym/sports vernacular, \"anabolic\" commonly means anabolic-androgenic steroids rather than the metabolic process; clinical and biochemical English keep the process sense.", "ICU \"anabolic state\" as a feeding target is especially conventionalized in ESPEN/ASPEN (European and North American) critical-care nutrition practice." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of anabolism this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Catabolism", "difference": "Catabolism is the energy-releasing breakdown of larger molecules to smaller ones (often yielding ATP and reducing power); anabolism consumes ATP/NADPH to build larger molecules. The operational test is direction and energy coupling of the pathway, not the tissue in which it occurs." }, { "name": "Metabolism", "difference": "Metabolism is the sum of anabolism and catabolism plus the linking energy-currency reactions; a process is anabolic only if it is the constructive, energy-consuming subset." }, { "name": "Biosynthesis", "difference": "Biosynthesis names the chemical construction of a molecule; anabolism names that construction as a physiological, energy-coupled half of metabolism. GO and enzyme lists usually code biosynthesis; textbooks use anabolism for the metabolic framing." }, { "name": "Anabolic-androgenic steroids / anabolic agents", "difference": "These are drugs (or WADA-listed substances) that can stimulate anabolism, especially protein deposition; they are not the process. Separation test: a chemical identity and a pharmacological schedule vs a pathway map and energy balance." }, { "name": "Growth / hypertrophy", "difference": "Organismal or tissue growth can result from anabolism but also from hyperplasia, hypertrophy, water, and mineral accretion. Separation test: isotopic or balance measures of net macromolecule synthesis vs a change in mass or size." }, { "name": "Assimilation", "difference": "Older or ecological usage for uptake and incorporation of nutrients into biomass; it includes transport and may not specify ATP/NADPH-coupled biosynthetic pathways. Separation test: whether the claim is about nutrient incorporation into the organism or about named biosynthetic pathways." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of anabolism this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend anabolism to cover all biological biosynthesis, including maintenance and specialised products, or a narrower set of biomass-building activities?", "What rule should assign shared reactions in pathways serving both synthesis and breakdown without duplicating ownership in neighbouring models?", "Which pathway- and organism-specific sources are needed to substantiate energy coupling, reducing-power requirements and regulatory relationships?", "What evidence threshold should distinguish demonstrated anabolic flux from inferred capacity when direct flux measurements are unavailable?", "At what biological scale can multiple synthesis rates be combined into an overall anabolic-state judgement without hiding opposing product-specific balances?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "abstract concept", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a anabolism, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a biological biosynthetic process, assess whether it is operating and constrained, and identify evidence-supported ways to investigate or influence it.", "characteristics": { "substance": "activity", "origin": "conceptual", "agency": "inert" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a anabolism, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time", "physicalCharacter": [ "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 62 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one anabolism from another, and a anabolism from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a anabolism, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a anabolism, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a anabolism is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a anabolism, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a anabolism, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a anabolism is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a anabolism sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a anabolism, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a anabolism, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a anabolism is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a anabolism from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a anabolism, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a anabolism, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a anabolism is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a anabolism passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a anabolism between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a anabolism, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a anabolism, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a anabolism is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a anabolism, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a anabolism is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a anabolism, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a anabolism, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a anabolism is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "process-and-outcome", "name": "Process, inputs and outcome", "description": "How a anabolism proceeds, what it 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"event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a anabolism is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-results", "name": "Inputs, resources and results", "description": "What a anabolism consumes and what it produces.", "findings": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs", "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects", "description": "The resources a anabolism takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.", "questions": [ { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a anabolism, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a anabolism, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a anabolism is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "definitions-in-contest", "name": "Definitions and who holds them", "description": "What anabolism is taken to mean, and by whom.", "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.", "layers": [ { "id": "competing-definitions", "name": "Competing definitions", "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-map", "name": "Definitions and their holders", "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.", "questions": [ { "id": "definition-map-q01", "text": "Which definitions of anabolism are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "definition-map-q02", "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operationalisation", "name": "Operationalisation", "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.", "findings": [ { "id": "operational-record", "name": "Measures and proxies", "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.", "questions": [ { "id": "operational-record-q01", "text": "How is anabolism operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "operational-record-q02", "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "instances-and-use", "name": "Instances, use and consequence", "description": "What counts as an instance of anabolism and what follows from calling something that.", "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.", "layers": [ { "id": "instances", "name": "What counts as an instance", "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.", "findings": [ { "id": "instance-tests", "name": "Tests for an instance", "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.", "questions": [ { "id": "instance-tests-q01", "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of anabolism?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "instance-tests-q02", "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consequence", "name": "Consequence of application", "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequence-record", "name": "What the label licenses", "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.", "questions": [ { "id": "consequence-record-q01", "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as anabolism?", "kind": "action" }, { "id": "consequence-record-q02", "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a anabolism came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain 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"action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a anabolism is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a anabolism, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a anabolism, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge 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