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connectivity, condition and response capacities, while relating it to the organs and organisms in which it occurs.", "in_scope": [ "Identification and boundaries of a nervous-tissue region or specimen", "Neuronal and glial composition and organisation", "Local neural processes, myelination and connectivity", "Tissue-level signalling, support and functional condition", "Injury, degeneration, repair and preparation-related changes", "Evidence and constraints governing observation, sampling and manipulation" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-brain, spinal-cord or peripheral-nerve anatomy beyond the tissue region being modelled", "Complete molecular and electrophysiological models of individual neurons or glial cells", "Organism-level cognition, behaviour and subjective experience", "Disease classification and patient-level diagnosis or treatment", "Independent models of blood vessels, meninges and connective-tissue coverings", "Device engineering and general laboratory-protocol specification" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Seek an organised population of neurons, neural processes and supporting glia; an isolated excitable cell or a single neural marker does not establish nervous-tissue identity.", "Distinguish it from muscle using cellular morphology and organisation: neural processes and neural contacts support nervous-tissue identification, whereas contractile fibre architecture supports muscle identification; excitability alone is insufficient.", "Distinguish nervous tissue from adjacent connective tissue by locating neural cells or process bundles and their glial associations, rather than treating a nerve's fibrous coverings as its neural component.", "Distinguish it from sensory epithelium by determining whether the observed region is neural tissue, epithelial receptor tissue or their interface; sensory responsiveness alone does not settle the boundary.", "Do not reject nervous-tissue identity because neuronal cell bodies are sparse or absent in a sampled field; 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"Electrical activity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Recorded signal type with applicable units such as mV, µV, Hz or ms, acquisition conditions and spatial coverage", "why_it_matters": "Provides evidence about activity while preserving the limits of what the measurement represents." }, { "name": "Viability and cellular stress", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Assay-supported viable, compromised, nonviable, mixed or unknown; preparation context required", "why_it_matters": "Separates living functional capacity from preserved morphology." }, { "name": "Support environment", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Available measurements of oxygenation, temperature, pH, substrates or perfusion, each with units and method", "why_it_matters": "Environmental changes can alter neural activity or injure tissue independently of its original condition." }, { "name": "Injury and repair trajectory", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed changes over time in neural 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"Describe the neural populations and spatial arrangements that give the tissue its local organisation.", "rationale": "Cell-body-rich regions, neuropil and axonal regions require different expectations and condition assessments.", "layers": [ { "id": "neuronal-and-glial-populations", "name": "Neuronal and glial populations", "description": "Identify neural cell populations without assuming that one sampling method captures them equally.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-composition-and-distribution", "name": "Population composition and distribution", "description": "Record identified cell populations, their distribution and uncertainty in classification or counting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which neuronal and glial populations are distinguishable with the available methods?", "kind": "definition", "id": "population-composition-and-distribution-q01" }, { "text": "What are their measured densities or proportions, and how do sampling boundaries and detection methods affect those 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"Connectivity and signalling", "description": "Represent the tissue's observed connections and activity without equating structural proximity with functional communication.", "rationale": "Recognising nervous tissue is insufficient to establish what signals it carries or whether its connections remain functional.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-and-external-connections", "name": "Local and external connections", "description": "Locate neural contacts and pathways within and beyond the modelled region.", "findings": [ { "id": "connection-evidence-and-continuity", "name": "Connection evidence and continuity", "description": "Record supported contacts and pathways, their endpoints and limits on inferred direction or function.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which local contacts and incoming or outgoing pathways are demonstrated, and by what anatomical or functional evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "connection-evidence-and-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Which connections extend beyond the 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"neural-condition-and-change", "name": "Neural condition and change", "description": "Assess survival, support conditions and changes affecting neurons, glia, axons and myelin.", "rationale": "Preserved appearance, viable cells and functioning neural pathways are distinct aspects of tissue state.", "layers": [ { "id": "viability-and-support", "name": "Viability and support", "description": "Relate neural-cell condition to the local environment and preparation.", "findings": [ { "id": "viability-under-observed-conditions", "name": "Viability under observed conditions", "description": "Record evidence of survival or stress together with conditions that influence its interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which assays support viability or stress assessments for the neural populations present?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "viability-under-observed-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What is known about perfusion or medium support, oxygenation, temperature and elapsed time since 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nervous tissue, 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 nervous tissue 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 nervous tissue from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a nervous tissue, 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 nervous tissue, by which 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refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a nervous tissue is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a nervous tissue is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a nervous tissue, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a nervous tissue, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a nervous tissue is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a nervous tissue moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a nervous tissue, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a nervous tissue, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a nervous tissue 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 nervous tissue 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 nervous tissue between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a nervous tissue, 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 nervous tissue, 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 nervous tissue 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 nervous tissue, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a nervous tissue 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 nervous tissue, 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 nervous tissue, 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 nervous tissue is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What nervous tissue is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of nervous tissue, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate nervous tissue from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish nervous tissue from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What nervous tissue does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does nervous tissue pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of nervous tissue judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where nervous tissue lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of nervous tissue, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does nervous tissue hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a nervous tissue 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 itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a nervous tissue and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a nervous tissue, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a nervous tissue, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a nervous tissue is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "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 nervous tissue is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a nervous tissue, 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 nervous tissue, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a nervous tissue is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }