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Subject Characteristic Type (Class)
Description: "Descriptive Category" capable of classifying a "Subject Characteristic".
Comment: Note that Subject Characteristic is the only type of Subject Property which is descriptive, ie not associative.
Source: CBS V2 Gen
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Characteristic (Class)
Description: "Subject Property" which is a specific condition, state or other item of information observed about a "Subject" at a point in time and excluding its location, identifiers and relationships to other "Subjects".
Comment:
Derived in part from CBS v2:

Any specific condition, state, property or other item of information about a "Subject" at a point in time.

Source: CBS V2 Gen
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Contact (Class)
Allow Shared: F
Override Shared: F
Default Shared: F
Allow Transactional: F
Override Transactional: F
Default Transactional: F
Allow Monitored: F
Override Monitored: F
Default Monitored: F
Allow Distributed: F
Override Distributed: F
Default Distributed: F
Normalize: F
Abstract: F
Derived: F
Description: "Subject Identifier" being a means by which the Subject may receive communications.
Source: CBS V2 Gen
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Creation (Class)
Description: Deduction by an "Agent" that a "Subject" was created by an "Event".
Source: HcM QA
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Identifier Allocated (Class)
Description: "Subject Identifier" which has been assigned to a "Subject".
Comment:
The authority by which the identifier is assigned is represented in the relationship to the allocating ACTIVITY and its states.
This is the only entry point. "Subject Identifiers" are considered available whilst in this state.

Source: post-CBS
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

subject identifier for (Association)
From Class: "Subject Identifier"
To Class: "Subject Identifier State"

Subject Identifier Rescinded (Class)
Description: "Subject Identifier" which is no longer available for a "Subject".
Comment:
The authority by which the identifier is rescinded is represented in the relationship to the allocating ACTIVITY and its states.
This is not an entry point but is an end point. "Subject Identifiers" are considered unavailable in this state.

Source: post-CBS
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Identifier State Change (Class)
Description: "Activity" changing the state of a "Subject Identifier".
Source: HcM QA
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Identifier State Type (Class)
Description: "State Type" being one of the permissible states for "Subject Identifier".
Source: HcM QA
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Identifier State (Class)
Description: "Subject Identifier" in a state which it is currently or has been previously.
Comment: Note that there are both subtypes (comprising all the possible states) and a "power type" of "Subject Identifier State Type". The latter's contents are identical to the subtypes; it exists in order to control topics such as access and permission to amend.
Source: HcM QA
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Identifier (Class)
Allow Shared: F
Override Shared: F
Default Shared: F
Allow Transactional: F
Override Transactional: F
Default Transactional: F
Allow Monitored: F
Override Monitored: F
Default Monitored: F
Allow Distributed: F
Override Distributed: F
Default Distributed: F
Normalize: F
Abstract: F
Derived: F
Description: Assigned symbol or term to discriminate the "Subject" from others.
Comment:
May not uniquely discriminate a "Subject" from all others. Any "Subject Property" or "Subject Identifier" may be used for discrimination. A Subject Identifier is unique only where it occurs as a "Unique Identifier In Domain".


Source: post-CBS
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Location Type (Class)
Description: "Associative Category" capable of classifying a relationship between a "Subject" and a "Location".
Source: CBS V2 Gen
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Location (Class)
Allow Shared: F
Override Shared: F
Default Shared: F
Allow Transactional: F
Override Transactional: F
Default Transactional: F
Allow Monitored: F
Override Monitored: F
Default Monitored: F
Allow Distributed: F
Override Distributed: F
Default Distributed: F
Normalize: F
Abstract: F
Derived: F
Description: "Property" giving the past, present or future physical location of the "Subject".
Source: CBS V2 Gen
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Name (Class)
Allow Shared: F
Override Shared: F
Default Shared: F
Allow Transactional: F
Override Transactional: F
Default Transactional: F
Allow Monitored: F
Override Monitored: F
Default Monitored: F
Allow Distributed: F
Override Distributed: F
Default Distributed: F
Normalize: F
Abstract: F
Derived: F
Description: "Subject Identifier" being a specific and ordered combination of words and titles not in a specific "Identifier Domain".
Comment: From PJR July 97. Note that there is no suggestion that a Name is unique.
Source: CBS V2 Gen
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F
&Attributes:
Name

Definitions Used:
Name (Class Attribute)

Subject Natural Progression (Class)
Abstract: F
Derived: F
Allow Shared: F
Override Shared: F
Default Shared: F
Allow Transactional: F
Override Transactional: F
Default Transactional: F
Allow Monitored: F
Override Monitored: F
Default Monitored: F
Allow Distributed: F
Override Distributed: F
Default Distributed: F
Normalize: F
Description: "Natural Progression" not associated with a specific "Actual Property" but associated generally with the "Subject".
Source: post-CBS
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Phenomenon (Class)
Allow Shared: F
Override Shared: F
Default Shared: F
Allow Transactional: F
Override Transactional: F
Default Transactional: F
Allow Monitored: F
Override Monitored: F
Default Monitored: F
Allow Distributed: F
Override Distributed: F
Default Distributed: F
Normalize: F
Abstract: F
Derived: F
Description: Fact or event, related to a "Subject", that appears or is perceived by one of the senses or by the mind.
Source: post-CBS
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Property Qualifier (Class)
Description: "Phenomenon Qualifier" qualifying a "Subject Property".
Source: CCC
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Property (Class)
Allow Shared: F
Override Shared: F
Default Shared: F
Allow Transactional: F
Override Transactional: F
Default Transactional: F
Allow Monitored: F
Override Monitored: F
Default Monitored: F
Allow Distributed: F
Override Distributed: F
Default Distributed: F
Normalize: F
Abstract: F
Derived: F
Description: Condition or state associated with a "Subject".
Source: post-CBS
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Responsibility Act (Class)
Description: An "Activity for Subject" that establishes the responsibility that an "Agent" has for some "Subject" to perform some "Activity Type" or for when some "Activity Type" is being performed.
Comment:
Examples:
The responsibility that a GP has for a patient to perform 'general medical duties'.
The responsibility of a 'named nurse' to a patient to be the central reference point within a hospital.

Source: CBS V2 Gen
Previous name: Subject Responsibility
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

Subject Responsibility (Class)
Description: Responsibility of an "Agent" to provide an "Activity Type" for a "Subject".
Comment: The Subject is inherited from the Subject Responsibility Act.
Source: CBS V2 Gen
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

subject to constraint (Association)
From Class: "Agent's Activity Type"
To Class: "Activity Type Excluded"

subject to constraint (Association)
From Class: "Authorised Agent Activity"
To Class: "State Transition Permission"

subject (Association)
From Class: Subject
To Class: "Access Group For Information"

subject (Association)
From Class: Subject
To Class: "Object Representation"

subject (Association)
From Class: Subject
To Class: "Subject Phenomenon"

Subject (Class)
Description: "Percept" consisting of one or more persistent physical objects.
Comment:
The definition above, as for others, has been distilled from what has been suggested in the past, including:

The "Object" of interest to an "Agent" (CBS v2).
One or a collection of physical objects.
"Percept" which is a physical object and / or a collection of physical objects.
Persistent perceivable object.
Extension of one or more "Concepts" which is perceived or inferred to exist in the universe.

Source: CBS V2 Gen
Previous name: Subject
State Type: F
&Abstract: F
Value: F

subject (Association)
From Class: Subject
To Class: "Subject Property"
Undefined: T

subject (Association)
From Class: Subject
To Class: "Subject Identifier"

superseded activity (Association)
From Class: "Not Required Activity"
To Class: "Activity Substitution"