Communication pruning

Yu, T., M. Winslett, and K.E. Seamons, Prunes An efficient and complete strategy for automated trust negotiation over the internet, in Proc. of the 7th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Athens, Greece, November 2000. 

The term plasticity has been used to emphasize the brain s responsiveness and ability to adapt to changing environmental input. The brain creates new brain cell synapses and prunes old ones in response to experience (Greenough et al., 1992 Weiler et al., 1995). Caged animals with limited opportunities for spontaneous activity will not develop as many neuronal interconnections as more free-ranging animals. It is doubtful that the brains of children would be any less responsive to the environment than those of rats. If environmental influences, such as the frequency and quality of communication, can influence brain development, chronic drug exposure should be viewed as potentially dangerous. In addition, the stimulants make children less spontaneous, reducing their interactions with the environment and hence their brain development. 

Are there any sentences that are unnecessarily wordy Is there deadwood that could be eliminated (Remember that concise prose is more effective than wordy, fat prose because readers can find and follow key ideas and terms easier. Nearly every writer has a wordiness problem that chokes communication, so now is the season to prune.)... 

Models are an excellent way to uncover aspects of physical reality. However, we cannot be too proud of our own creations, particularly of our pet hypotheses. I find this to be particularly true of modelers. After all, what else does the bedraggled theoretician have Careful pruning of any inflated claims and self-analysis coupled to good communication will greatly enhance the contribution made via this exercise. 

These two examples hint that many other steps will be needed to discard wrong solutions. Let us now have a closer look to the technical ways to settle communication between the computer and the chemist description of molecules, description of reactions and pruning the synthesis tree. 

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