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The economic value to the UK of speaking other languages

This study shows that investing in languages education in the UK will most likely return more than the investment cost. Benefit-to-cost ratios are estimated to be at least 2:1 for promoting Arabic, French, Mandarin or Spanish education.

Feb 21, 2022

Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Marco Hafner, Eliane Dufresne, Erez Yerushalmi
Journal Article

A Community-Partnered Approach to Social Network Data Collection for a Large and Partial Network

To help improve landslide communication in Sitka, we used a community-partnered approach to social network analysis to identify potential key actors for landslide risk communication and structural holes that may inhibit communication.

Feb 18, 2022

Max Izenberg, Ryan Andrew Brown, Cora Siebert, Ron Heinz, Aida Rahmattalabi, Phebe Vayanos
Report

Equity Metrics for Climate Adaptation in the Electricity Sector

Social equity has become a key concern among public agencies. The authors developed an illustrative set of context-specific equity metrics that Southern California Edison could build on and incorporate into its ongoing work toward climate adaptation.

Feb 17, 2022

Nidhi Kalra, Swaptik Chowdhury, Kelly Klima, Liam Regan
Report

Mitigating Challenges to U.S.-Russia Strategic Stability

The authors examine the challenges to the U.S.-Russian bilateral strategic stability paradigm and assess possible policy changes that could address these challenges.

Feb 17, 2022

Samuel Charap, John J. Drennan, Luke Griffith, Edward Geist, Brian G. Carlson
Report

Incorporating Complementary and Integrative Health Providers in the Public Health Pandemic Response: Lessons from COVID-19 and Recommendations for the Future from a Multidisciplinary Expert Panel

Complementary and integrative health providers have been an underutilized public health asset in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This report seeks to inform how they can be better integrated into future responses to public health emergencies.

Feb 17, 2022

Ian D. Coulter, Margaret D. Whitley, Raheleh Khorsan, Patricia M. Herman
Report

Realising the Ambitions of the UK's Defence Space Strategy: Factors Shaping Implementation to 2030

This study provides an initial look at the factors influencing the implementation of the Defence Space Strategy to 2030 and the strengths and weaknesses of the UK space enterprise. It also includes a decision support tool for capability management.

Feb 17, 2022

Lucia Retter, James Black, Theodora Ogden
Report

Insider Threat and White-Collar Crime in Non-Government Organisations and Industries: A Literature Review

The authors describe recent literature on insider threats and white-collar crime in non-government organisations and industries and identify management strategies used to counter them, both internationally and in the Australian context.

Feb 16, 2022

Marigold Black, Jade Yeung, Douglas Yeung
Report

Flux in the Educator Labor Market: Acute Staff Shortages and Projected Superintendent Departures: Selected Findings from the Fourth American School District Panel Survey

To obtain a national picture of the staffing challenges that districts are facing in the 2021-2022 school year, RAND researchers surveyed 359 district and charter network leaders in the American School District Panel from October to December 2021.

Feb 15, 2022

Heather L. Schwartz, Melissa Kay Diliberti
Report

Evaluation of the Minnesota Department of Correction's Career Navigators Program: Final Report

The authors conducted an independent process and outcomes evaluation of the Minnesota Department of Corrections' Career Navigators program, which aimed to help people with educational and career opportunities before and after being incarcerated.

Feb 15, 2022

Lois M. Davis, Michelle C. Tolbert, Susan Turner
Report

Suggestions for Estimating the Effects of State Gun Policies: Commentary on Four Methodological Problems in the Current Literature

In this report, the authors discuss four common methodological problems that they observed in the literature evaluating gun policies and offer suggestions for how future research on gun policies could be improved.

Feb 15, 2022

Terry L. Schell, Rosanna Smart, Andrew R. Morral
Report

COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium: Final Report

RAND Europe evaluated how the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium contributed to the pandemic response in the United Kingdom and examined the role of pathogen genomics research and sequencing networks in pandemic response.

Feb 15, 2022

Sonja Marjanovic, Robert J. Romanelli, Gemma-Claire Ali, Brandi Leach, Margaretha Bonsu, Daniela Rodriguez-Rincon, Tom Ling
Journal Article

Nasty, Brutish, and Short—The Future of Space Operations in the Absence of the Rule of Law: Addressing Congestion, Contestation, and Competitiveness in the New Space Era

Existing treaties and laws are not sufficient to govern space given the dramatic growth in space activity. Ensuring a safe, secure, and prosperous space for all nations may require the application of social contract theory to space governance.

Feb 15, 2022

Douglas C. Ligor, Bruce McClintock
Journal Article

Artificial Intelligence for Wargaming and Modeling

We discuss how AI can be used in modeling, simulation, wargaming, and combinations thereof, focusing largely on the strategic political-military level.

Feb 15, 2022

Paul K. Davis, Paul Bracken
Journal Article

Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement: A Conceptual Model to Advance Health Equity Through Transformed Systems for Health

This commentary will describe how the Organizing Committee arrived at the conceptual model, the critical content that the model contains and expresses, and how the model can be used to assess meaningful community engagement.

Feb 15, 2022

Dmitry Khodyakov
Report

An Overview of the Effectiveness of U.S. Counternarcotics Efforts in Colombia, 2000–Present, and Recommendations for the Future

The authors of this report examine the period in Colombia from 2000 to 2020 to assess the effectiveness of U.S. counternarcotics and security efforts: eradication of coca, interdiction of cocaine, security and rule of law, and development.

Feb 11, 2022

Daniel M. Gerstein, Bryce Pardo, Aaron C. Davenport, Irina A. Chindea
Report

Carve-In Models for Specialty Behavioral Health Services in Medicaid: Lessons for the State of California

To inform California's consideration of a policy to carve Medicaid financing of specialty behavioral health care into the state's Medicaid managed care system, the authors examine other states' experiences with this approach.

Feb 11, 2022

Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, Jonathan S. Levin, Joshua Breslau, Jonah Kushner, Nicole K. Eberhart, Mallika Bhandarkar
Journal Article

Disparities in Use/Misuse of Specific Illicit and Prescription Drugs Among Sexual Minority Adults in a National Sample

We examined disparities by sexual identity and sex for 8 illicit and prescription drugs using 2015-2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health data.

Feb 11, 2022

Megan S. Schuler, Rebecca L. Collins, Rajeev Ramchand
Report

Assessing Systemic Strengths and Vulnerabilities of China's Defense Industrial Base: With a Repeatable Methodology for Other Countries

The authors assess the strengths and vulnerabilities of China's defense industrial base (DIB) by designing and applying a comparative analytic structure that could be used to assess any country's DIB.

Feb 11, 2022

Cortney Weinbaum, Caolionn O'Connell, Steven W. Popper, M. Scott Bond, Hannah Jane Byrne, Christian Curriden, Gregory Weider Fauerbach, Sale Lilly, Jared Mondschein, Jon Schmid
Research Brief

Assessing Systemic Strengths and Vulnerabilities of China's Defense Industrial Base

This brief presents an assessment of the strengths and vulnerabilities of China's defense industrial base (DIB), using a methodology that could be applied to assess any country's DIB.

Feb 11, 2022

Cortney Weinbaum, Caolionn O'Connell, Steven W. Popper, M. Scott Bond, Hannah Jane Byrne, Christian Curriden, Gregory Weider Fauerbach, Sale Lilly, Jared Mondschein, Jon Schmid
Journal Article

Demonstrating Trustworthiness When Collecting and Sharing Genomic Data: Views Across 22 Countries

We examine how participants from 22 countries perceived the relative value of measures to demonstrate the trustworthiness of those using donated DNA and/or medical information.

Feb 10, 2022

Richard Milne, Katherine I. Morley, Mohamed A. Almarri, Shamim Anwer, Jerome Atutornu, Elena E. Baranova, Paul Bevan, Maria Cerezo, Yali Cong, Alessia Costa, Christine Critchley, Josepine Fernow, Peter Goodhand, Qurratulain Hasan, Aiko Hibino, Gry Houeland, Heidi Howard, S. Zakir Hussain, Charlotta Ingvoldstad Malmgren, Vera L. Izhevskaya, Aleksandra Jedrzejak, Cao Jinhong, Megumi Kimura, Erika Kleiderman, Brandi Leach, Keying Liu, Deborah Mascalzoni, Álvaro Mendes, Jusaku Minari, Dianne Nicol, Emilia Niemiec, Christine Patch, Jack Pollard, Barbara Prainsack, Marie Rivière, Lauren Robarts, Jonathan Roberts, Virginia Romano, Haytham A. Sheerah, James Cuthbert Smith, Alexandra Soulier, Claire Steed, Vigdís Stefànsdóttir, Cornelia Tandre, Adrian Thorogood, Torsten H. Voigt, Nan Wang, Anne V. West, Go Yoshizawa, Anna Middleton

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