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These documents were made available online within the last few weeks. The most recently added documents are listed first.
Public Health Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Weapons - September 2, 2010
Presents a broad overview of the U.S. public health response system, recent efforts to improve preparedness, challenges faced, and options for moving forward.
Establishing State Health Insurance Exchanges: Implications for Health Insurance Enrollment, Spending, and Small Businesses - September 1, 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will increase insurance offer rates at small businesses. By 2016, rates would increase from 53 to 77 percent at firms with ten or fewer workers and from 71 to 90 percent at firms with 11 to 25 workers.
An Analysis of Strategic Price Setting in Retail Gasoline Markets - August 31, 2010
Studies price-setting behavior in the retail gasoline industry.
Analyzing North Korea's Decision-Making Process on its Nuclear Weapons Programs with the Rational Choice and Cognitive Choice Models - August 31, 2010
Analyzes North Korea's Decision-making process regarding its nuclear programs with two choice models -- Rational Choice and Cognitive Choice -- and suggest effective/adaptive/robust deterrence strategy for the ROK-US combined forces.
Three Proposed Initiatives for Improving Mobility, Quality of Life, and Economic Growth in the West Bank: A Visual Summary - August 31, 2010
Describes three demonstration projects based on the Arc, RAND's proposal for a sweeping infrastructure corridor linking urban centers, within and between the West Bank and Gaza.
RAND Review: Vol. 34, No. 2, Summer 2010 - August 30, 2010
Features discuss retirement patterns of baby boomers, marijuana legalization, drug enforcement in Europe, and No Child Left Behind; news items cover the Gulf coast, food allergies, the U.S. health reform law, police benefits, and Pakistani militants.
Building a More Resilient Haitian State: French translation of summary - August 30, 2010
Ce rapport passe en revue les défis auxquels est confrontée la République d'Haïti, ainsi que les projets de réforme envisagés, afin d'identifier les priorités les plus nécessaires, réalisables et durables dans le domaine de la construction étatique.
Navy Network Dependability: Models, Metrics, and Tools - August 27, 2010
Develops a framework for measuring the dependability of naval networks and describes a software tool for modeling the impact that individual network components have on overall mission operational availability.
Are Law and Policy Clear and Consistent?: Roles and Responsibilities of the Defense Acquisition Executive and the Chief Information Officer - August 23, 2010
Identifies and examines sources of potential conflicts among acquisition executives and chief information officers that may arise from differences in the large and complex body of Defense Department policy that implements U.S. law.
Multi-perspective Strategic Decision Making: Principles, Methods, and Tools - August 19, 2010
Defines methods, principles, and tools to help groups agree on multi-perspective strategic decision making.
Reflecting Warfighter Needs in Air Force Programs: Prototype Analysis - August 19, 2010
Documents the first phase of a study aimed at finding ways to ensure that warfighter needs are adequately represented as the Air Force manages its programs and budget.
Policy Implications of the Use of Retail Clinics - August 18, 2010
Retail clinics' quality of care appears comparable to that of other provider types, but we know little about the effects of clinic use on preventive services, care coordination, and care continuity.
Evaluating Navy's Funded Graduate Education Program: A Return-on-Investment Framework - August 18, 2010
The financial costs of graduate education are difficult to recoup, but the Navy benefits from broadly educating its officers. The skills and general knowledge thus gained add value throughout a career, particularly one headed for flag rank.
International variation in the usage of medicines: A review of the literature - August 17, 2010
The report reviews the published and grey literature on international variation in the use of medicines: osteoporosis, atypical anti-psychotics, dementia, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease/lipid-regulating drugs (statins), and hepatitis C.
Research Careers at the RAND Corporation - August 16, 2010
This overview describes research careers at the RAND Corporation.
Building a More Resilient Haitian State: Key Recommendations and Priorities - August 13, 2010
Haiti's future prosperity and peace require building a more effective, resilient state. RAND researchers identified Haiti's main challenges and recommended a set of state-building priorities that are necessary, feasible, and sustainable.
Building a More Resilient Haitian State - August 13, 2010
Haiti's future prosperity and peace require building a more effective, resilient state. This report sifts through Haiti's many challenges and reform plans to identify the state-building priorities that are most necessary, feasible, and sustainable.
Enhancing Army Joint Force Headquarters Capabilities - August 10, 2010
The U.S. Army needs to improve its ability to command and control joint, interagency, and multinational forces in diverse environments, and to prepare Army headquarters to perform as components of, or headquarters for, joint task forces.
Air Power - August 10, 2010
Surveys the subject of air power as an area of research in international security studies and provides a bibliography of significant works and useful online resources.
Directors as Guardians of Compliance and Ethics Within the Corporate Citadel: What the Policy Community Should Know - August 9, 2010
Documents a May 12, 2010, symposium that RAND convened to examine the perspective and role of corporate boards of directors in overseeing ethics and compliance matters within their firms.
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