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     <rights>Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation</rights>
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   <title type="html">A New Look at Gender and Minority Differences in Officer Career Progression in the Military</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1159.html</id>
   <published>2012-05-24T05:15:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-05-24T05:15:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Examines differences in the rates at which minority and women officers are retained and promoted within the U.S. military, as well as differences in the rates among women officers serving in occupations that are partially closed to women.</summary>
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   <title type="html">CANES Contracting Strategies for Full Deployment</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR993.html</id>
   <published>2012-05-24T05:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-05-24T05:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Examines contracting alternatives for the full deployment phase of the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services system, intended to give the U.S. Navy a common set of key command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence networks.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Methodology for Constructing a Modernization Roadmap for Air Force Automatic Test Systems</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1147.html</id>
   <published>2012-05-24T04:30:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-05-24T04:30:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The Air Force is planning to modernize its automatic testing capabilities for electronics by moving to modern, common families of test equipment. This report focuses on the economic aspect of this process.</summary>
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   <title type="html">A Prototype Knowledge-Sharing Service for Clinical Decision Support Artifacts</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1207.html</id>
   <published>2012-05-17T07:30:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-05-17T07:30:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report describes the development of 22 clinical decision support (CDS) artifacts as part of the Advancing Clinical Decision Support effort to accelerate the effective use of CDS interventions and facilitate evidence-based clinical practice.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Postmenopausal osteoporosis management</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1247.html</id>
   <published>2012-05-09T10:30:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-05-09T10:30:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The report work aims to inform the development of quality indicators for postmenopausal osteoporosis management in Europe.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Funding Ammunition Ports</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1204.html</id>
   <published>2012-05-09T05:45:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-05-09T05:45:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The U.S. Army&apos;s two ammunition ports -- Military Ocean Terminal Concord and Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point -- have different funding approaches and accounting systems, and a central question is what the most appropriate financial structure should be.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Selected International Best Practices in Police Performance Measurement</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1153.html</id>
   <published>2012-05-07T10:15:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-05-07T10:15:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Police officers take on a variety of roles, and performance measures should capture this complexity. This report describes key considerations in designing police performance measures and includes a detailed review of international best practices.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Analysis of Costs in an Algebra I Curriculum Effectiveness Study</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1171.html</id>
   <published>2012-04-30T09:30:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-04-30T09:30:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Examines the costs of implementing Carnegie Learning&apos;s Cognitive Tutor Algebra I curriculum and comparison algebra I curricula published by Prentice Hall, Glencoe, and McDougal Littell.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Improving Joint Expeditionary Medical Planning Tools Based on a Patient Flow Approach</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1003.html</id>
   <published>2012-04-24T06:45:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-04-24T06:45:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The authors propose a planning concept for U.S. military expeditionary medical care that promotes patient flow rate as the common unit of measurement for treatment and evacuation functions.</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Impact of Health Care Reform on Workers&apos; Compensation Medical Care</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1216.html</id>
   <published>2012-04-23T05:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-04-23T05:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Uses the experience of Massachusetts&apos;s heath care reform to empirically estimate how health reform impacts the volume and cost of workers&apos; compensation hospital care.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Assessment of the implementation of the EU Drugs Strategy 2005&amp;mdash;2012 and its Action Plans</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1228.html</id>
   <published>2012-04-18T04:30:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-04-18T04:30:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report sets out findings from an independent evaluation of the EU Drugs Strategy 2005-12 and Action Plans. The research examined the implementation, relevance and influence of the Strategy and its added value for Member States and at EU level.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Assessment of the Content, Design, and Dissemination of the Real Warriors Campaign</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1176.html</id>
   <published>2012-04-16T05:15:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-04-16T05:15:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Presents the results of an assessment of the Real Warriors Campaign, a multimedia program designed to promote resilience, facilitate recovery, and support the reintegration of returning servicemembers, veterans, and their families.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Energy Services Analysis</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1170.html</id>
   <published>2012-04-10T06:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-04-10T06:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report uses energy services analysis (ESA) to examine possibilities for changing how a service is delivered. ESA is used to analyze how changes in two services -- news delivery and personal mobility -- might reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions.</summary>
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   <title type="html">DISMEVAL Developing and validating disease management evaluation methods for European healthcare systems</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1226.html</id>
   <published>2012-04-04T07:30:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-04-04T07:30:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">The report presents the overall findings of work carried out within the DISMEVAL project. It reviews approaches to chronic care in Europe and reports on methods and metrics for the evaluation of disease management interventions in six countries.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Evaluating chronic disease management</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1213.html</id>
   <published>2012-04-04T06:30:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-04-04T06:30:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report outlines choices, options and trade-offs to policymakers, programme operators and researchers interested in the evaluation of chronic disease management. It is based on analyses undertaken within the DISMEVAL project.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Developing a Framework for Establishing Clinical Decision Support Meaningful Use Objectives for Clinical Specialties</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1129.html</id>
   <published>2012-04-02T06:15:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-04-02T06:15:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report describes a protocol for eliciting high-priority targets for electronic clinical decision support for individual clinical specialties, a central requirement of the federal electronic health record incentive program.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Feasibility Study for a European Cybercrime Centre</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1218.html</id>
   <published>2012-03-27T13:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-03-27T13:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">RAND Europe conducted a feasibility study on a European Cybercrime Centre by reviewing literature, conducting extensive consultations with law enforcement and a scenario based workshop. The study evaluated different options for the set up of the ECC.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Using Pattern Analysis and Systematic Randomness to Allocate U.S. Border Security Resources</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1211.html</id>
   <published>2012-03-27T06:15:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-03-27T06:15:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report investigates how the Office of Border Patrol could employ pattern and trend analysis and systematic randomness to increase interdiction rates and mitigate smuggler adaptation.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Analysis of the Cities Readiness Initiative</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1200.html</id>
   <published>2012-03-27T06:00:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-03-27T06:00:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">Examines (1) the status of communities&apos; capability to deliver medical countermeasures within 48 hours of a federal decision to deploy assets and (2) whether the Cities Readiness Initiative has improved communities&apos; capability to meet that goal.</summary>
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   <title type="html">National Evaluation of the DH Integrated Care Pilots</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1164.html</id>
   <published>2012-03-22T11:15:00Z</published>
   <updated>2012-03-22T11:15:00Z</updated>
   <summary type="html">This report is the result of an evaluation of the 16 DH integrated care pilots (ICPs).</summary>
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