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The Evolving Roles of Emergency Departments — May 20, 2013
This brief summarizes a RAND analysis of the role of that hospital emergency departments may come to play in either contributing to or reducing the rising costs of health care.
Iran After the Bomb: How Would a Nuclear-Armed Tehran Behave? — May 17, 2013
This study explores how a nuclear-armed Iran would behave and what this would entail for the United States and its main regional allies. It analyzes the Islamic Republic's ideology, motivations, and national security doctrine; examines a nuclear-armed Iran's potential policies toward Saudi Arabia and the GCC; discusses its potential behavior toward Israel; explores its relations with terrorist groups; and presents key findings.
RAND Arroyo Center Annual Report 2012 — May 17, 2013
RAND Arroyo Center is the Army's federally funded research and development center for studies and analyses. Its mission is to help Army leaders make decisions that are informed by independent, objective, high-quality analysis. This annual report describes Arroyo's research activities in FY12, with profiles of its five programs providing a close look at the year's research agenda.
Are U.S. Military Interventions Contagious over Time? Intervention Timing and Its Implications for Force Planning — May 17, 2013
Current DoD force planning processes assume that U.S. military interventions are serially independent over time. This report challenges this assumption, arguing that interventions occur in temporally dependent clusters in which the likelihood of an intervention depends on interventions in the recent past. Integrating the concept of temporal dependence into DoD planning processes could help planners develop more appropriate force estimates.
Brandishing Cyberattack Capabilities — May 13, 2013
Deterrence is possible only when others have at least a good idea of possible U.S. military reprisals, but cyberattack capabilities resist such demonstration. This report explores ways they can be and under what circumstances, then goes on to examine the difficulties and the drawbacks. Such "brandishing" is no panacea and could even backfire if misinterpreted. Its success also relies on the strength of other elements of the deterrence posture.
Does integrated care deliver the benefits expected? Findings from 16 integrated care pilot initiatives in England — May 13, 2013
RAND Europe co-led an evaluation of 16 varied pilot projects initiated by the Department of Health (England) as a means to explore new ways of integrating patient care from different local provider.
How the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania May Fare Under the Affordable Care Act — May 10, 2013
This infographic presents findings from a RAND analysis of the economic and other effects of Medicaid expansion on the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Building the Future: Summary of Four Studies to Develop the Private Sector, Education, Health Care, and Data for Decisionmaking for the Kurdistan Region — Iraq (with Kurdish-language version) — May 8, 2013
This report summarizes the approaches, findings, and recommendations of four studies intended to help the Kurdistan Regional Government expand access to high-quality education and health care, increase private-sector development and employment for the expanding labor force, and design a data-collection system to support high-priority policies. The detailed findings appear in four separate reports.
Building the Future: Summary of Four Studies to Develop the Private Sector, Education, Health Care, and Data for Decisionmaking for the Kurdistan Region — Iraq (with Arabic-language version) — May 8, 2013
This report summarizes the approaches, findings, and recommendations of four studies intended to help the Kurdistan Regional Government expand access to high-quality education and health care, increase private-sector development and employment for the expanding labor force, and design a data-collection system to support high-priority policies. The detailed findings appear in four separate reports.
Evaluation of the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response and Associated Toolkit — May 7, 2013
With reducing the burden of foodborne disease among its primary goals, the multidisciplinary Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) developed the Guidelines for Foodborne Outbreak Response (2009) and a companion Toolkit (2011) to improve foodborne disease outbreak detection and response at the state and local levels. This study assesses the distribution and use of the CIFOR Guidelines and Toolkit to determine whether and to what extent they are reaching their intended users and achieving their goals.
Setting Priorities in the Age of Austerity: British, French, and German Experiences — May 6, 2013
Examines the British, French, and German armies' approaches to accommodating significant budget cuts while attempting to sustain their commitment to full spectrum operations. Specifically, it looks at the choices these armies are making with respect to how they spend dwindling resources: What force structure do they identify as optimal? How much readiness do they regard as necessary? Which capabilities are they abandoning?
Limiting the Potential for Racial Profiling in State and Local Police Enforcement of Immigration Laws — May 3, 2013
The passage of immigration enforcement laws, traditionally the purview of the federal government, by Arizona and other states raises the concern that state and local law enforcement agencies may engage in racial profiling when enforcing immigration laws. This paper describes several approaches for detecting racial profiling by police and calls for their use in monitoring the implementation of state and local immigration enforcement laws.
Assessing Aegis Program Transition to an Open-Architecture Model — May 3, 2013
To reduce the costs of maintaining the Aegis system, and to take advantage of rapidly evolving commercial computing technology, the U.S. Navy is moving toward open-architecture software, a common source code library, and commercial, off-the-shelf processors. This report examines the potential benefits of this new model, the pace of upgrades, and the best way for the Navy to maximize the technological and financial benefits.
Analysis of research and education indicators to support designation of Academic Health Science Centres in England — May 2, 2013
To support the English Department of Health's Academic Health Science Centres competition in 2013, RAND Europe has analysed various types of publicly available data and quality assessments in the domains of medical research and health education.
Facilitating Information Sharing Across the International Space Community: Lessons from Behavioral Science — May 2, 2013
Space debris is a growing threat that will increasingly affect future space-related missions. The space community would benefit from sharing information, but its members are not always willing to do so. This report examines some of the potential behavioral and psychological barriers that may prevent information sharing and suggests ways the U.S. Air Force might be able to facilitate improved information sharing among space-faring entities.
A Computational Model of Public Support for Insurgency and Terrorism: A Prototype for More-General Social-Science Modeling — May 1, 2013
This report builds on earlier RAND research that used qualitative conceptual causal models called "factor trees" to identify the factors that contribute to aspects of terrorism or insurgency and how the factors relate to each other. This report goes beyond the qualitative by specifying a prototype computational social-science model of public support for terrorism and insurgency. The model illustrates designing for reusability and composition.
Can Economic Openness Inspire Better Corporate Governance? An Exploration of the Link between Openness and Corporate Governance based on the Asian Experience — April 29, 2013
Explores the link between economic openness and companies' corporate governance practices in developing countries.
Providing for the Casualties of War: The American Experience Through World War II — April 29, 2013
War has always been a dangerous business, bringing injury, wounds, and death, and — until recently — often disease. What has changed over time, most dramatically in the last 150 or so years, is the care these casualties receive and who provides it. This book looks at the history of how humanity has cared for its war casualties and veterans, from ancient times through the aftermath of World War II.
U.S. Overseas Military Posture: Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits — April 29, 2013
In an environment of fiscal constraints and shifting strategic needs, policymakers should carefully weigh the strategic capability effects, relative costs, and risks associated with potential changes to U.S. overseas military posture.
Overseas Basing of U.S. Military Forces: An Assessment of Relative Costs and Strategic Benefits — April 29, 2013
This independent assessment is a comprehensive study of the strategic benefits, risks, and costs of U.S. military presence overseas. The report provides policymakers a way to evaluate the range of strategic benefits and costs that follow from revising the U.S. overseas military presence by characterizing how this presence contributes to assurance, deterrence, responsiveness, and security cooperation goals.
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