The phrase "a pruning of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of trimming or reducing something, often in the context of plants, ideas, or processes.
Example: "The committee decided that a pruning of the budget was necessary to allocate funds more effectively."
Alternatives: "a reduction of" or "a trimming of".
The other feature is a pruning of nerve connections, the synapses, in the pre-frontal cortex.
But what is happening is far more brutal than a pruning of the good ideas from the bad, the easy from the hard.
But basically the brain seems to be rewiring itself as it matures, with the thinning of the cortex reflecting a pruning of redundant connections.
That shrinking budget has forced a pruning of non-essentials: gone are golf games, eating out, boozing and the tipsy taxi-ride home.
The first round of cuts will also include a pruning of quangos, a catch-all phrase for public bodies that exist outside the formal confines of government departments.
Of 742 venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, he said, 192 were created within the last 18 months, a situation that will inevitably lead to a pruning of the venture community in the months ahead.
Modern silvicultural regimes for redwood are based on the preliminary results of a pruning study of redwood at Tutira, Hawke's Bay (Scion, unpublished data).
When faced with a time or epoch that requires radical change we must begin to enter a period of mental pruning -- a stage of "cutting back" our outmoded belief-systems, ideas, priorities and excesses: a pruning back of our delusions.
The next 20 hours see a pruning back of those connections, rather as in the very young human brain.
One police chief added that the cuts will mean fewer officers and a pruning back of neighbourhood policing and proactive prevention work which stops crime levels rising.
Markel in [1], and Skinner in [13], proposed the input pruning methods based on a radix-2 FFTs, while Yuan et al., in [14], proposed an input pruning of a split-radix FFT.
