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A Quantitative Analysis of the Costs of Corruption in the EU
The aim of this report is to quantify the economic and societal losses due to corruption in the European Union, and to identify potential for action at EU level, to address the challenges identified.
Feb 28, 2023
Marco Hafner, Eliane Dufresne, Stijn Hoorens, Emma Disley
Report
Skills for Success: Developing Social and Emotional Competencies in Out-of-School-Time Programs
This report offers guidance for out-of-school-time programs that wish to incorporate social and emotional learning activities into their programming. The lessons are derived from the RAND Corporation's study of more than 100 afterschool programs.
Feb 27, 2023
Jennifer T. Leschitz, Susannah Faxon-Mills, Andrea Prado Tuma, Katie Tosh, Catherine H. Augustine, Heather L. Schwartz
Report
Types of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the Active-Duty Army
This report describes results of analyses that identify different types of sexual assault and sexual harassment experiences and assess how common each type is in the Army. It uses data from the 2018 Workplace and Gender Relations Survey.
Feb 24, 2023
Terry L. Schell, Sarah O. Meadows, Avery Calkins, Matthew Cefalu, Linda Cottrell, Rebecca L. Collins
Report
Talent Management and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Private-Sector Organizations: A Qualitative Review of Promising Practices
Researchers reviewed academic literature and conducted interviews with private-sector organizations to identify promising practices in support of the Department of the Air Force's goal of building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce.
Feb 23, 2023
Devon Hill, Kirsten M. Keller, Monica Rico, Melissa Shostak, Miriam Matthews
Report
Countering Domestic Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Terrorism on Social Media: Introducing the Racist and Violent Extremist Flock Tool
Researchers developed the Racist and Violent Extremist Flock (RVE-Flock) tool to explore and analyze textual content on racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist–affiliated social media. This guide explains the tool's functionality.
Feb 23, 2023
Daniel Tapia, Kristin Warren, Jacqueline Gardner Burns, Khrystyna Holynska, Jordan R. Reimer, Peter Schirmer, Will Shumate
Tool
Visualizing Firearm Mortality and Law Effects: An Interactive Web-Based Tool
This tool provides users with information about the distribution of firearm deaths across states and demographic subgroups. Users can explore how those deaths might be affected by the implementation of a set of commonly enacted state firearm laws.
Feb 23, 2023
Andrew R. Morral, Terry L. Schell, Theo Jacobs, Rosanna Smart
Report
The U.S. Air Force Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Values on Social Media: A Proof-of-Concept Examination of How Air Force–Affiliated Accounts Represent the Service Online
This report presents a proof-of-concept to assess the online behavior of U.S. Air Force (USAF)-affiliated users over social media, specifically in regard to USAF diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Feb 22, 2023
William Marcellino, Christian Curriden
Report
Benchmarking Demographic Diversity in Air Force Functional Areas Against Near-Equivalent Civilians: The Air Force Occupational Diversity Benchmarking Workbooks
To allow decisionmakers to discover potential barriers to a diverse and inclusive workforce, the authors created a method to measure diversity in the Department of the Air Force occupations using near-equivalent civilian occupations as benchmarks.
Feb 22, 2023
Avery Calkins, Tiffany Berglund, David Schulker, Louis T. Mariano
Report
The relationship between research spending and research performance: A cross-country and in-depth study
This study investigates the relationship between spending and research performance through an econometric analysis and also investigates potential nonlinearities in the relationship between spending and performance through a series of case studies.
Feb 22, 2023
Joachim Krapels, Marco Hafner, Anne Kirtley, Enora Robin, Paulina Pankowska, Louise Lepetit, Jacopo Bellasio, Susan Guthrie
Report
Quantifying Potential Cost Avoidance Implications of Outcomes Reported in Behavioral and Social Science Research
This report summarizes and develops utility functions for a series of behavioral and social science studies to help senior leaders translate the research results into estimates of cost avoidance or other desired benefits.
Feb 22, 2023
Bruce R. Orvis, Heather Krull, Michael G. Shanley
Report
Promoting Strong International Collaboration in Quantum Technology Research and Development
The author discusses (1) the strategic importance of (and challenges of) strong research collaboration with U.S. allied and partner nations and (2) five key policy areas in this space. He also proposes a desired end state for this cooperation.
Feb 22, 2023
Edward Parker
Journal Article
Many Clinicians Implement Digital Equity Strategies To Treat Opioid Use Disorder
Clinicians who treated patients with opioid use disorder reported less use of telemedicine in 2022 than in 2020. More than three-quarters of survey respondents used digital equity strategies to help patients overcome barriers to video visits.
Feb 22, 2023
Lori Uscher-Pines, Lauren E. Riedel, Ateev Mehrotra, Sherri Rose, Alisa B. Busch, Haiden A. Huskamp
Journal Article
International Humanitarian Narratives of Disasters, Crises and Indigeneity
Narratives are a means of making sense of disasters and crises. We identify and characterise narratives in humanitarian communications involving Indigenous Peoples by conducting a narrative analysis of humanitarian communications.
Feb 22, 2023
Anuszka Maton-Mosurska, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, James D. Ford, Susannah M. Sallu, Katy Davis
Report
Universal Command and Control Language Early System Engineering: Performance Effects of a Universal Command and Control Standard
In a multiyear effort, RAND researchers analyzed the challenges of creating a universal command and control language to facilitate the evolution of systems and interoperability of systems-of-systems for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Feb 21, 2023
James Dimarogonas, Jasmin Léveillé, Jan Osburg, Shane Tierney, Bonnie L. Triezenberg, Graham Andrews, Bryce Downing, Muharrem Mane, Monica Rico
Report
Staying the Unfavorable Course: National Security Council Decisionmaking and the Inertia of U.S. Afghanistan Policy, 2001–2016
The authors examined the reasons behind the inertia of the U.S. policy objective in Afghanistan through interviews with the senior leaders involved in policy deliberations between 2001 and 2016.
Feb 21, 2023
Matthew Sargent, Jason H. Campbell, Alexandra T. Evans, Caitlin McCulloch, Jordan R. Reimer, Richard S. Girven
Journal Article
The Role of Pre-Treatment Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Adolescent Substance Use Treatment Outcomes
This study assesses the association between traumatic stress symptoms and substance use treatment outcomes among trauma-exposed adolescents, using methods to reduce potential confounding from factors such as baseline substance use severity.
Feb 21, 2023
Donna L. Coffman, Lynsay Ayer, Megan S. Schuler, Mark D. Godley, Beth Ann Griffin
Journal Article
Exploring Chinese Thinking on Deterrence in the Not-So-New Space and Cyber Domains
This conference volume chapter explores evolving Chinese thinking on space and cyber deterrence. Besides nuclear deterrence, the space and cyber domains are viewed by China as its main means of strategic deterrence.
Feb 21, 2023
Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga
Journal Article
Broad and Selectively Deep: An MRMPM Paradigm for Supporting Analysis
To aid policy analysis and decision making, projects should use models and simulations of varied resolution and perspective. This can improve analysis, improve communication, and provide a broad view, necessary detail, and alternative views.
Feb 21, 2023
Paul K. Davis
Journal Article
Potential Implications of the Russia–Ukraine War for Northeast Asia
Commentary on potential lessons from the Russia–Ukraine war bearing on deterrence in Northeast Asia, including lessons related to nuclear weapons.
Feb 21, 2023
Paul K. Davis
Journal Article
The Opioid Use Disorder Core Outcomes Set (OUD–COS) for Treatment Research: Findings from a Delphi Consensus Study
The aim of this study was to develop the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) opioid use disorder core outcomes set (OUD–COS).
Feb 21, 2023
Niranjan S. Karnik, John Marsden, Connor McCluskey, Randy A. Boley, Katharine A. Bradley, Cynthia I. Campbell, Megan E. Curtis, David Fiellin, Udi Ghitza, Kathryn Hefner, Yih-Ing Hser, R. Kathryn McHugh, Sterling M. McPherson, Larissa J. Mooney, Landhing M. Moran, Sean M. Murphy, Robert P. Schwartz, Dikla Shmueli-Blumberg, Matisyahu Shulman, Kari A. Stephens, Katherine E. Watkins, Roger D. Weiss, Li-Tzy Wu

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