Less is sometimes less

More is Sometimes Less: Succinctness in EL

In logics, there are many ways to represent same facts. With respect to both reasoning and cognitive complexity, some representations are significantly less efficient than others. In this paper, we investigate different means of improving the succinctness of TBoxes expressed in the lightweight description logic EL that forms a basis of some large ontologies used in practice. As a measure of siz...

Less is sometimes less: the effectiveness of Mellow Parenting is uncertain.

Strong and replicated evidence exists that interventions to improve parenting also improve shortand long-term psychosocial outcomes for children and adolescents. However, not all such interventions meet with equal success. Critical syntheses of effect studies, such as conducted by MacBeth et al. on the Mellow Parenting intervention, can therefore be highly helpful. The aims of MacBeth et al. we...

Sometimes less is more in multiple sclerosis drug switching.

EDITORIAL Sometimes less is more in multiple sclerosis drug switching Às vezes menos é mais na troca de medicações em esclerose múltipla T he treatment options for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), a chronic central nervous system inflammatory demyelinating disorder, have widened in the past decades. Nowadays, medications can significantly reduce the relapse rate and magnetic reson...

Stress training and simulator complexity: why sometimes more is less

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Radioiodine for thyroid cancer: sometimes, less is best.