The law of mass action says that the efficiency of any complex function of the brain is reduced proportionately to how much damage the brain as a whole has sustained, but not to the damage of any particular area of the brain.
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The law of mass action forms the basis of the compartmental model of disease spread in mathematical epidemiology, in which a population of humans, animals or other individuals is divided into categories of susceptible, infected, and recovered ( immune ).
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Existence of a pharmacological effect in the absence of any true active ingredient is inconsistent with the law of mass action and the observed dose-response relationships characteristic of therapeutic drugs ( whereas placebo effects are non-specific and unrelated to pharmacological activity ).
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These processes which occur simultaneously are referred to as the Law of Mass Action, a widely accepted idea that the rate of contact between two groups in a population is proportional to the size of each of the groups concerned ( Daley & Gani, 2005 ).
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Clearly Ball should be considered a more reliable source, and he, choosing his words carefully, says only that the claims'[ defy ] conventional scientific understanding', clarifying this by citing the law of mass action-- and he does admit that this is not necessarily the full story.
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Applying the law of mass action, which states that the rate of a reaction is proportional to the product of the concentrations of the reactants ( i . e . [ E ] [ S ] ), gives a system of four non-linear ordinary differential equations that define the rate of change of reactants with time t
