Abstract While emigration and population displacements have long been a feature of Iraqi history, this article argues that the 2003 Anglo-American intervention in Iraq its legacy has contributed to gradual disappearance many non-Muslim minorities from Iraq. Though can be attributed confluence domestic geopolitical factors, it is argued here set motion process nation-destroying instead nation-bu...

We prove that if G is a graph and r1, . . . , rk ∈ Z≥0 such that ∑k i=1 ri ≥ ∆(G) + 2 − k then V (G) can be partitioned into sets V1, . . . , Vk such that ∆(G[Vi]) ≤ ri and G[Vi] contains no non-complete ri-regular components for each 1 ≤ i ≤ k. In particular, the vertex set of any graph G can be partitioned into ⌈ ∆(G)+2 3 ⌉ sets, each of which induces a disjoint union of triangles and paths.

Measuring the polarization of a single photon typically results in its destruction. We propose, demonstrate, and completely characterize a quantum nondemolition (QND) scheme for realizing such a measurement nondestructively. This scheme uses only linear optics and photodetection of ancillary modes to induce a strong nonlinearity at the single-photon level, nondeterministically. We vary this QND...

While personal fabrication tools, such as laser cutters and milling machines, are intended for construction, we are exploring their use for destruction. We present a series of games that result in valuable physical objects being destroyed—objects owned by the players. Interestingly, we found that we can design these games to be desirable to play, despite the loss of the object, by instead produ...