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U.S. Coast Guard Emergency Response and Disaster Operations: Using Social Media for Situational Awareness

Researchers are helping the U.S. Department of Homeland Security understand whether and how social media might be better leveraged for situational awareness in U.S. Coast Guard response operations.

Mar 17, 2020

Douglas Yeung, Sarah A. Nowak, Sohaela Amiri, Aaron C. Davenport, Emily Hoch, Kelly Klima, Colleen M. McCullough
Research Brief

How the U.S. Coast Guard Can Leverage Social Media and Enhanced Cell Phone Data to Improve Emergency Response

Researchers are helping the U.S. Department of Homeland Security understand how social media might be better leveraged for situational awareness—particularly location information—in U.S. Coast Guard response operations.

Mar 17, 2020

Douglas Yeung, Sarah A. Nowak, Sohaela Amiri, Aaron C. Davenport, Emily Hoch, Kelly Klima, Colleen M. McCullough
Report

Detecting Malign or Subversive Information Efforts over Social Media: Scalable Analytics for Early Warning

The authors examine scalable analytic means to detect malign or subversive information efforts. The report has operational relevance to the U.S. government and may also benefit other researchers and social media companies dealing with malign actors.

Mar 16, 2020

William Marcellino, Krystyna Marcinek, Stephanie Pezard, Miriam Matthews
Testimony

Testimony

From SARS to 2019-Coronavirus (nCoV): U.S.-China Collaborations on Pandemic Response: Addendum

Document submitted March 5, 2020, as an addendum to testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation on February 5, 2020.

Mar 16, 2020

Jennifer Bouey
Journal Article

Association Between Opioid Prescribing in Medicare and Pharmaceutical Company Gifts by Physician Specialty

The value of opioid-related gifts given to physicians varies substantially by provider specialty, as does the relationship between payment amounts and prescriber behavior in the following year.

Mar 13, 2020

Mara A. Hollander, Julie M. Donohue, Bradley D. Stein, Elizabeth E. Krans, Marian P. Jarlenski
Report

A Separate Space: Creating a Military Service for Space

As the United States creates the Space Force as a service within the Department of the Air Force, RAND assessed which units to bring into the Space Force, analyzed career field sustainability and drew lessons from other defense organizations.

Mar 13, 2020

Michael Spirtas, Yool Kim, Frank Camm, Shirley M. Ross, Debra Knopman, Forrest E. Morgan, Sebastian Joon Bae, M. Scott Bond, John S. Crown, Elaine Simmons
Research Brief

Creating a Separate Space Force: Challenges and Opportunities for an Effective, Efficient, Independent Space Service

Taking into account the goals of effectiveness, efficiency, independence, and identity, the RAND Corporation proposed the activities that should transfer to the new Space Force and analyzed how best to sustain career fields in the small service.

Mar 13, 2020

Michael Spirtas, Yool Kim, Frank Camm, Shirley M. Ross, Debra Knopman, Forrest E. Morgan, Sebastian Joon Bae, M. Scott Bond, John S. Crown, Elaine Simmons
Report

Small Unmanned Aerial System Adversary Capabilities

To support the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in prioritizing capability investments, this report examines trends in small unmanned aerial system development, features that could aid nefarious users, and how such actors could use these systems.

Mar 12, 2020

Bradley Wilson, Shane Tierney, Brendan Toland, Rachel M. Burns, Colby Peyton Steiner, Christopher Scott Adams, Michael Nixon, Raza Khan, Michelle D. Ziegler, Jan Osburg, Ike Chang
Report

Alternative Worldviews: Understanding Potential Trajectories of Great-Power Ideological Competition

The United States is engaged in a new era of great-power competition taking place in the realms of information, ideas, and ideology. The authors of this report analyze what a future ideological competition might look like.

Mar 12, 2020

Stephen Watts, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Benjamin N. Harris, Clint Reach
Report

Report

RAND American Educator Panels Technical Description

This document provides detailed information on the RAND American Educator Panels, the multiple phases and waves of recruitment used to create the panels, weighting, and variance estimation.

Mar 12, 2020

Michael W. Robbins, David Matthew Grant
Report

Report

Countering Violent Extremism in Nigeria: Using a Text-Message Survey to Assess Radio Programs

The authors present the results of a text message–based randomized controlled trial designed to assess the impact of a countering violent extremism (CVE)–themed radio program broadcast in northern Nigeria in 2018–2019.

Mar 12, 2020

James V. Marrone, Todd C. Helmus, Elizabeth Bodine-Baron, Christopher Santucci
Journal Article

Journal Article

Continuity of Operations Plan Improvement Tool for Public Health Laboratories

Public health laboratories are in various stages of development of their continuity of operations plan (COOP). The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) contracted with RAND to develop and pilot test a COOP tabletop exercise.

Mar 12, 2020

Shoshana R. Shelton, Amanda Wicker, Stuart S. Olmsted
Journal Article

Journal Article

Guidebook for Multi-Agency Collaboration for Sustainability and Resilience

This guidebook provides a framework and practical advice for how to establish and sustain multi-agency collaborations that seek to address wide-ranging comprehensive policy objectives.

Mar 11, 2020

Susan A. Resetar, Liisa Ecola, Rachel Jill Liang, David M. Adamson, Christopher Forinash, Lilly Shoup, Brynn Leopold, Zachary Zabel Nelson-Nygaard
Journal Article

Journal Article

Health System and Beneficiary Costs Associated With Intensive End-of-Life Medical Services

The objective of this paper is to quantify expected beneficiary and health system costs incurred in association with receipt of intensive medical services in the last month of life.

Mar 11, 2020

Risha Gidwani-Marszowski, Steven M. Asch, Vincent Mor, Todd H. Wagner, Katherine Faricy-Anderson, Samantha Illarmo, Gary Hsin, Manali L. Patel, Kavitha Ramchandran, Karl Lorenz, Jack Needleman
Journal Article

Journal Article

Cost Analysis of a Randomized Trial of Getting to Outcomes Implementation Support of CHOICE in Boys and Girls Clubs in Southern California

This study estimates the societal costs of implementing CHOICE, a voluntary after-school alcohol and other drug prevention program for adolescents, in Boys and Girls Clubs across Southern California with and without an implementation support system called Getting To Outcomes.

Mar 11, 2020

Patricia M. Herman, Matthew Chinman, Jill S. Cannon, Patricia A. Ebener, Patrick S. Malone, Joie D. Acosta, Elizabeth J. D'Amico
Report

The Price and Spending Impacts of Limits on Payments to Hospitals for Out-of-Network Care

Researchers estimated the effects that four proposed out-of-network payment limits for hospital care would have on negotiated in-network prices and total payments for hospital care.

Mar 11, 2020

Erin L. Duffy, Christopher Whaley, Chapin White
Report

Report

U.S. Army North in the Hurricane Maria Response

This report addresses questions from U.S. Army North about the assistance it provided to civilian disaster-response operations in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 1997.

Mar 10, 2020

Eric V. Larson, Bryan Boling, Derek Eaton, Suzanne Genc, David Kravitz, Kristin J. Leuschner, Andrew Lewis, Jason Liggett, Lindsey Polley
Report

Comparing the Army's Suicide Rate to the General U.S. Population: Identifying Suitable Characteristics, Data Sources, and Analytic Approaches

Researchers investigate how accounting for demographic factors beyond age and gender (race/ethnicity, time, marital status, and educational attainment) affects suicide rate differences between soldiers and the general U.S. population.

Mar 10, 2020

Beth Ann Griffin, Geoffrey E. Grimm, Rosanna Smart, Rajeev Ramchand, Lisa H. Jaycox, Lynsay Ayer, Erin N. Leidy, Steven Davenport, Terry L. Schell, Andrew R. Morral
Journal Article

Journal Article

Effect of Early-Stage Alzheimer's Disease on Household Financial Outcomes

Our goal in this study is estimate, on net, the financial effects of early-stage Alzheimer's Disease, from the start of first symptoms to diagnosis, on individuals and their families.

Mar 10, 2020

Carole Roan Gresenz, Jean M. Mitchell, James V. Marrone, Howard J. Federoff
Journal Article

Journal Article

Implementing an Adaptive Intelligent Tutoring System as an Instructional Supplement

This article studies the implementation of ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces) in a blended-learning model. This is the first rigorous experimental evaluation of ALEKS in K–12 in-school settings, and the first to gather extensive implementation data.

Mar 10, 2020

Andrea Phillips, John F. Pane, Rebecca Reumann-Moore, Oluwatosin Shenbanjo

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