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acts upstream of
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c acts upstream of p if and only if c enables some f that is involved in p' and p' occurs chronologically before p, is not part of p, and affects the execution of p. c is a material entity and f, p, p' are processes.
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example of usage
A faulty traffic light (material entity) whose malfunctioning (a process) is causally upstream of a traffic collision (a process): the traffic light acts upstream of the collision.
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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ro.owl
see also
http://wiki.geneontology.org/index.php/Acts_upstream_of
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