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The proper standard for attacking a person under the laws of war is whether the person has a "continuous combat function" or is "directly participating in hostilities".
The multi-role Super Hornet allowed No. 1 Squadron to augment its previous offensive strike role with an air-to-air combat function.
Nations cannot lawfully target and kill suspected terrorists unless they pose an imminent threat to that nation, or unless that nation is at war and the target is directly participating in hostilities, or in a continuous combat function.
Even under IHL, you can't kill civilians (those not operating as forces of a warring State) unless they're directly participating in hostilities, or in a "continuous combat function".
For example, there are other reasons why a regular military might want to keep everything in-house, even if it is not a combat function, such as unity of command.
In war, persons who directly participate in hostilities or who perform a continuous combat function in an armed group are targetable, and bin Laden certainly was the latter, if not the former.
To eliminate batch effects between both physiological aging datasets, the ComBat function was applied [ 30].
After quantile normalization, the ComBat function was used to correct for batch effects [ 20].
The ComBat function performs an empirical Bayes adjustment to reduce batch effect.
This analysis was performed using the Combat function of the SVA package of R software [ 41].
If batch effects were present we removed them using the combat function [ 28].
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