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RAND Review: July-August 2022

Features explore environmental racism; the economic value to the UK of improving languages education in schools; and causes of civilian harm in Raqqa, Syria, and ways to reduce civilian casualties in current and future military operations.

Journal Article

The Need for a Measurement-Based Care Professional Practice Guideline

In connection with the APA's Advisory Committee for Measurement-based Care and the Mental and Behavioral Health Registry, this article provides support for the development and implementation of a measurement-based care professional practice guideline.

James F. Boswell, Kimberly A. Hepner, Kathleen Lysell, Nan Rothrock, Nick Bott, Amber W. Childs, Susan Douglas, Nicole Owings-Fonner, C. Vaile Wright, Kari A. Stephens, David E. Bard, Syed Aajmain, Bruce L. Bobbitt

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Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial for the R TWANG Package

This tutorial describes the use of the TWANG package in R to estimate propensity score weights when there are two treatment groups, and how to use TWANG to estimate nonresponse weights.

Greg Ridgeway, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Andrew R. Morral, Matthew Cefalu, Lane F. Burgette, Joseph D. Pane, Beth Ann Griffin

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Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups: A Tutorial on the TWANG Shiny App for Two Treatments

This tutorial describes how to use a menu-driven Shiny application based on the Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups (TWANG) R package.

Beth Ann Griffin, Ricardo Sanchez, Matthew Cefalu, Christopher E. Maerzluft, Chuck Stelzner, Lynsay Ayer, Donna L. Coffman, Brian G. Vegetabile, Joseph D. Pane, Lane F. Burgette, Daniel F. McCaffrey

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Leak or Link? the Overrepresentation of Women in Non-Tenure-Track Academic Positions in STEM

This paper examines gender variation in departures from the tenure-track science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) academic career pathway to non-tenure-track academic careers.

Stephanie Rennane, Hannah Acheson-Field, Kathryn A. Edwards, Grace Gahlon, Melanie A. Zaber

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Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults During the Great Recession and Economic Recovery

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data show a statistically significant increase in depressive symptoms from 2005/2006 to 2007/2008 (the beginning of the Great Recession), but there were no significant or consistent changes after 2007/2008.

Annie Chen, Roland Sturm

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Diet Quality in the United States Improved During the Great Recession and Deteriorated During Economic Recovery

During the Great Recession, American diets became more consistent with Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommendations, possibly because of a shift toward food prepared at home instead of prepared food bought away from home.

Annie Chen, Roland Sturm

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RCVS Under Care and 24/7 Emergency Care Review

This study explored the views of the veterinary profession on under care and out of hours care to feed into the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons review of their regulations.

Tom Ling, Lucy Hocking, Chris Heywood, Matthew Evans, Kayte Ashton

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Forecasting Demand for U.S. Ground Forces: An Interactive Tool

This interactive tool uses a dynamic forecasting model to project future demand for U.S. ground forces. The resulting forecasts can help inform U.S. military decisions regarding future force planning, posture, and investments.

Bryan Frederick, Jennifer Kavanagh, Matthew Lane

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Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes, and Disinformation: A Primer

This Perspective provides an overview of the threat of deepfakes and reviews the fundamental artificial intelligence-driven technologies that make them possible. It highlights deepfakes' threats, as well as factors that could mitigate them.

Todd C. Helmus

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French Army Approaches to Networked Warfare

The French concept of network-centric warfare argues that information-sharing enables forces to forgo armor and mass and underpins France's push for a middle-weight force -- one that can deploy to Africa but is robust enough for higher-end threats.

Michael Shurkin, Raphael S. Cohen, Arthur Chan

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Forecasting Demand for U.S. Ground Forces: Assessing Future Trends in Armed Conflict and U.S. Military Interventions

This report identifies potential future demands for U.S. ground forces under different scenarios, including size, location, and capabilities, to inform Army decisions regarding future force planning, posture, and investments.

Matthew Lane, Bryan Frederick, Jennifer Kavanagh, Stephen Watts, Nathan Chandler, Meagan L. Smith

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Identifying Critical IT Products and Services

Researchers have identified the software and businesses that provide critical information technology products and services and developed a framework to continue this analysis as technology evolves. They assessed both software risk and business risk.

Sasha Romanosky, John Bordeaux, Michael J. D. Vermeer, Jonathan W. Welburn, Aaron Strong, Zev Winkelman

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Career Services and College-Employer Partnership Practices in Community Colleges: Colleges in California, Ohio, and Texas

In this report, the authors systemically examine the type of career services and college-employer partnership practices across three states -- California, Ohio, and Texas -- and a sample of community colleges that operate within them.

Rita T. Karam, Charles A. Goldman, Monica Rico

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The Impact and Implementation of the Chicago Collaborative Teacher Professional Development Program

The authors evaluated the Leading Educators Chicago Collaborative, a teacher professional development program aligned to Common Core State Standards, examining the program's implementation and its impact on student achievement.

Kata Mihaly, Isaac M. Opper, Lucas Greer

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Space Competition and the Dynamics of Conflict: Using Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence to Gain Strategic Insight

The authors summarize research about using a game-theoretic model of competition and cooperation in space to examine the dynamics of conflict there, short of wars of total destruction. They focus specifically on the dynamics of space competition .

Bonnie L. Triezenberg, Krista Langeland, Bryce Downing

Journal Article

Pods in Action: Community Works

This case study describes Community Works, a pandemic-era learning pod in New Orleans, LA. This case study is part of an effort by the Center for Reinventing Public Education to capture lessons learned from pandemic-era schooling.

Heather Gomez-Bendaña, Elizabeth D. Steiner

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Pods in Action: Hyde Park Neighborhood Club

This case study describes Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, a pandemic-era learning pod in Chicago, IL. This case study is part of an effort by the Center for Reinventing Public Education to capture lessons learned from pandemic-era schooling.

Rebecca Ann Lawrence

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Pods in Action: Neighborhood North

This case study describes Neighborhood North, a pandemic-era learning pod in Beaver Falls, PA. This case study is part of an effort by the Center for Reinventing Public Education to capture lessons learned from pandemic-era schooling.

Elizabeth D. Steiner, Heather Gomez-Bendaña

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Use of Personalized Learning Platforms in One Pandemic-Era Microschool: A Case Study

The many pandemic-era uses of personalized learning platforms can provide insight into how they might affect students' academic, social, and emotional outcomes. This report discusses one example: the Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy (SNUMA).

Christopher Joseph Doss, Elizabeth D. Steiner