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transmission-risk modelling", "Clinical treatment plans and medication selection" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A sneeze report or characteristic observed event supports identification; a sharp sound alone does not distinguish it reliably from a cough or vocalisation.", "A reported nasal tickle or urge to sneeze supports identification, but its absence or unavailability does not exclude a sneeze.", "A respiratory expulsion identified as coughing should remain a cough unless additional evidence supports reclassification.", "Deliberate sustained nose blowing into a tissue is distinct from a sneeze, even when the two occur together.", "An urge that passes without a reported or observed sneeze is recorded as an uncompleted urge, rather than counted automatically as a sneeze." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Identification status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported sneeze | observed probable sneeze | ambiguous event | reclassified event", "why_it_matters": "Prevents 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"kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "apparently completed | reportedly suppressed or interrupted | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes what happened from the person's intention or urge." }, { "name": "Candidate trigger association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "linked exposure or circumstance, with temporal relation and attribution source", "why_it_matters": "Records possible associations without asserting causation." }, { "name": "Reported accompanying symptoms", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "linked symptom observations with timing; none reported | not assessed", "why_it_matters": "Provides context while keeping symptom interpretation outside the event model." }, { "name": "Covering behaviour", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "tissue | elbow or sleeve | hand | uncovered | other | unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Supports immediate hygiene follow-up without claiming a measured containment effect." }, { "name": "Immediate functional effect", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "no interruption reported | brief interruption | task stopped | other reported effect | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Makes the event's practical consequence available for action." } ], "affordances": [ "Record a sneeze with its identification evidence and uncertainty.", "Group or separate repeated sneezes using an explicit episode boundary.", "Compare event timing with reported exposures while preserving causal uncertainty.", "Ask focused questions when sneeze identity, count or immediate effects are unclear.", "Offer context-appropriate hygiene or task-pause prompts under an applicable response policy.", "Pass accompanying concerns to an appropriate health-assessment workflow without diagnosing from the sneeze." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "songu-cazorla-2011", "title": "Sneeze reflex: facts and fiction", "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2770262/", "what_it_supports": "Clinical physiology of the sneeze reflex, afferent/efferent pathways, 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circumstances immediately preceding it.", "findings": [ { "id": "candidate-trigger-evidence", "name": "Candidate trigger evidence", "description": "Keep exposures such as dust, scents or changes in lighting separate from claims that they triggered the sneeze.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exposure or change in surroundings preceded the sneeze, and by how long?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "candidate-trigger-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Who attributed the sneeze to that circumstance, and was that attribution based on this event or a reported recurring pattern?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "candidate-trigger-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accompanying-observations", "name": "Accompanying observations", "description": "Attach relevant symptoms and circumstances while preserving their independent identity.", "findings": [ { "id": "associated-symptom-record", "name": "Associated symptom record", "description": "Record reported nasal irritation, discharge, discomfort or other 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unmeasured dispersal and infectiousness unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was a tissue, elbow, sleeve, hand or another covering used, or was covering unobserved?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-covering-and-contact-q01" }, { "text": "Was contact with hands, objects or another person directly observed, reported or merely suspected?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-covering-and-contact-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "activity-and-personal-effects", "name": "Activity and personal effects", "description": "Record immediate discomfort and interruption of the person's activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "sneeze-related-interruption", "name": "Sneeze-related interruption", "description": "Identify what the event interrupted and whether its immediate consequence remains unresolved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did the sneeze interrupt speech, movement or another task, and for how long?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "sneeze-related-interruption-q01" }, { "text": "Did the person 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"practical-follow-up-q01" }, { "text": "Does the interrupted activity require a pause or a check before resuming?", "kind": "action", "id": "practical-follow-up-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "clarification-and-handoff", "name": "Clarification and handoff", "description": "Identify when the sneeze record needs correction or a separate assessment workflow.", "findings": [ { "id": "limits-of-event-level-decisions", "name": "Limits of event-level decisions", "description": "Keep unresolved identity questions within event clarification and route broader health concerns to the relevant model.", "questions": [ { "text": "Would clarifying event identity, repetition or accompanying symptoms change the next action?", "kind": "action", "id": "limits-of-event-level-decisions-q01" }, { "text": "Which reported concern requires a separate health assessment, and what event evidence should accompany the handoff?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "limits-of-event-level-decisions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": 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"stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a sneeze 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 sneeze 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 sneeze, 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 sneeze, 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 sneeze 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 sneeze from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a sneeze, 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 sneeze, 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 sneeze 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 sneeze 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 sneeze between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a sneeze, 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 sneeze, 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 sneeze 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 sneeze, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a sneeze 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 sneeze, 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 sneeze, 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 sneeze is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a sneeze says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a sneeze contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a sneeze, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a sneeze, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a sneeze is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a sneeze and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a sneeze, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a sneeze, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a sneeze is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What sneeze studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does sneeze take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does sneeze establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where sneeze is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark sneeze as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place sneeze, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a sneeze 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 sneeze and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a sneeze, 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 sneeze, 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 sneeze 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 sneeze is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a sneeze, 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 sneeze, 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 sneeze is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }