2012-05-24T13:47:21Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM5777-1.html 1971-12-31T21:00:00Z 1971-12-31T21:00:00Z

Updated information on the implementation of SIMSCRIPT II on Rand's360/65 computer, with directions for use, helpful hints for programmers, a listing of messages produced during compilation and during execution, and a listing of the new improved...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6200z10.html 1970-12-31T21:00:00Z 1970-12-31T21:00:00Z

A set of indexes to the 1970 issues of [Soviet Cybernetics Review], and a bibliography with abstracts of 18 other RAND publications in the field.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3467z1.html 1970-12-31T21:00:00Z 1970-12-31T21:00:00Z

Addresses the choice between two general approaches to developing aircraft, the development-production approach and the prototype approach. The former calls for early financial commitments, and concentrates resources on getting the components into pr...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6253.html 1970-12-31T21:00:00Z 1970-12-31T21:00:00Z

Part of a RAND study on the measurement of racial discrimination in the economic sphere.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6339.html 1970-12-31T21:00:00Z 1970-12-31T21:00:00Z

An economic analysis of mental health services, especially community centers, prepared for New York City policymakers' use.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM5396.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

Investigates mathematical, computer-based methods of simulating the blood composition of individual clinical patients.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6201z3.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6195.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

Description of a sequence of policies for essentially finite-state dynamic programs with applications to Air Force inventory control problems. This work considers the case in dynamic programming where the domain and range is the space of denumerable ...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6186.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

Derivation of a Cauchy system whose numerical solution is equivalent to that of a nonlinear integral equation. This memorandum treats a nonlinear integral equation of Hammerstein type which arises in problems of mathematical physics and biology. A ...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6175.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

This memorandum treats the case of steady-state, radiative heat transport through an absorbing, emitting, and heat-generating gray gas contained inside a black-wall spherical cavity.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6148.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

The transport of electrons and ions in a thermionic converter is analyzed through a pair of Boltzmann equations and an electric field equation. Ionization of cesium neutrals in the gap is accounted for by electron impact with a speed-dependent ioniza...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6147.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

Demonstration of a computational approach to large-scale optimization of decomposable systems based on a modification of Zangwell's dual cutting-plane algorithm for concave programming. The discussion is concerned with situations in which the subpro...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6132.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

Describes the major design features of ECSS, a programming language for simulating computer systems as an aid to design and evaluation. In its prototype version, ECSS is implemented as a translator into SIMSCRIPT II with extensions to add further ca...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6181.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

A survey of the literature for an answer to the question: How long and under what conditions can POL be stored at a given level of quality? Information about the type of storage and handling facilities that will allow a particular quality of fuel to...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6179.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

A pilot study to develop a methodology for educational planning. Colombia was chosen for analysis primarily because there is a relatively extensive educational television (ETV) project currently under way from which data of a type unavailable elsewhe...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6171.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

Analyzes the role of the border conflict in overall Sino-Soviet relations In particular, this study details the two military clashes at Damansky Island in March 1969, examines plausible reasons for their occurrence, and sets them in the context of So...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6265z3.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

One of a series of Memoranda describing the design, implementation, and use of the MIND system, this study provides a detailed description of the way in which the main fact file of the MIND information-management system is organized.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6162.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

A theory of the value of discrimination in the job market as a function of the business cycle, based on elementary models of economic behavior in which, among other things, employer uncertainty about employee capacity to produce is incorporated. A fa...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6164.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

The theory of invariant imbedding gives the solution of an inhomogeneous problem in terms of the solution to an initial-value problem. This memorandum presents a computational approach for the solution of an inhomogeneous Fredholm integral equation o...

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM6324-DOT.html 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z 1969-12-31T21:00:00Z

Illustration of the application of a detailed methodology for evaluating changes to an existing mix of transportation modes. The setting for the example is a geographical region that is part of the Northeast Corridor of the United States. Two alter...