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The Nightingale Versus the Bear: What Persuasion Research Reveals About Ukraine's and Russia's Messaging on the War
The authors examine influence campaigns employed by Ukraine and Russia since February 2022 — both those targeting each state's own people and military personnel and those targeting the adversary — to understand whether the campaigns have been persuasive.
Oct 12, 2023
Alyssa Demus, Khrystyna Holynska, Krystyna Marcinek
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Recent Trends in Housing Cost Burden Among U.S. Military Veterans
This report provides estimates of the number of U.S. military veterans who experience financial burden from housing costs. It also offers context for how these estimates have changed over the course of the past 15 years.
Oct 12, 2023
Daniel Schwam, Jason M. Ward, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Sarah B. Hunter
Journal Article
Think Global, Act Local: Using a Translocal Approach to Understand Community-Based Organisations' Responses to Planetary Health Crises During COVID-19
We used a translocal learning approach to co-develop insights on community-based responses to complex health and environmental and economic crises.
Oct 12, 2023
Geordan Shannon, Parabita Basu, Laura E.R. Peters, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Tania Minka Herrera Delgado, Rajkumar Gope, Maga Guanilo, Ilan Kelman, Lilian Noelli, Eija Meriläinen, Katie Riley, Chloe Wood, Audrey Prost
Visualization
Rage Against the Machine? Knowing How Technology and Artificial Intelligence Have — and Have Not — Affected Jobs in Recent Decades Offers Insight into How They Could Affect the Future of Work
The authors examine how artificial intelligence has shifted on occupational exposure in the United States, whether new technology reduces the need for human labor, and college degrees and routine cognitive tasks as indicators of exposure.
Oct 11, 2023
Tobias Sytsma, Éder M. Sousa
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Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Force: A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying Exposed Occupations
The authors evaluate occupational exposure to U.S. technology patents and specific artificial intelligence technologies, such as machine learning, natural language processing, speech recognition, planning control, and evolutionary computation.
Oct 11, 2023
Tobias Sytsma, Éder M. Sousa
Journal Article
Changes in Sleep-Wake Patterns and Disturbances Before and During COVID-19 in Urban American Indian/Alaska Native Adolescents
Findings demonstrate positive and negative changes in sleep during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, including simultaneous increases in sleep duration and sleep-wake disturbances.
Oct 9, 2023
Wendy M. Troxel, Alina I. Palimaru, David J. Klein, Lu Dong, Daniel Dickerson, Ryan Andrew Brown, Carrie L. Johnson, Elizabeth J. D'Amico
Journal Article
Longitudinal Associations Between Sleep and BMI in a Low-Income, Predominantly Black American Sample
This study provides further evidence that, among a sample of low-income Black adults, sleep problems are not longitudinally predictive of BMI.
Oct 9, 2023
Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Lu Dong, Ann C. Haas, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Tamara Dubowitz, Daniel J. Buysse, Lauren Hale, Wendy M. Troxel
Journal Article
A Formal Framework For Incorporating Equity Into Health Care Quality Measurement
We propose equity weighting, a new measurement framework to advance equity on multiple fronts that addresses the shortcomings of existing approaches and explicitly calibrates incentives to align with equity goals.
Oct 9, 2023
Denis Agniel, Irineo Cabreros, Cheryl L. Damberg, Marc N. Elliott, Rhianna C. Rogers
Journal Article
Educational Attainment and US Drug Overdose Deaths
This paper studies how overdose rates have disproportionately changed for low education populations.
Oct 9, 2023
David Powell
Journal Article
The Race for U.S. Technical Talent: Can the DOD and DIB Compete?
This policy brief uses LinkedIn data to track the movement of tech workers between industries and metro areas, with a particular focus on the U.S. Department of Defense, the defense industrial base, and the so-called “Big Tech” companies.
Oct 6, 2023
Diana Gehlhaus, James Ryseff, Jack Corrigan
Journal Article
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Evaluation Framework Report
This report presents the evaluation framework and outlines the planned approach for the analytical frames and core evaluation data collection, including process and quasi-experimental impact evaluations and an economic feasibility assessment.
Oct 6, 2023
Sana Zakaria, Immaculate Dadiso Motsi-Omoijiade, Chryssa Politi, Merrilyn Groom, Joe Francombe
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Building U.S. Responses to Russia's Threats to Use Nonstrategic Nuclear Weapons: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Brinkmanship
Using a game theory approach, the authors examine U.S. tools and levers to respond to Russia’s potential employment of nonstrategic nuclear weapons in its conflict with Ukraine.
Oct 5, 2023
Krista Langeland, Anthony Vassalo, Clint Reach, Christopher Dictus, Gabrielle Tarini
Commentary
The American Mathematics Educator Study: Unraveling the Formula for Equitable and Excellent Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Authors lay out a research agenda for the American Mathematics Educator Study by synthesizing what they know from mathematics education research regarding key factors that shape equitable, high-quality mathematics teaching and learning.
Oct 5, 2023
Julia H. Kaufman, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Ashley Woo
Journal Article
Utilization and Spending on Mental Health Services Among Children and Youths With Commercial Insurance
In this study, we examined telehealth, in-person, and overall pediatric mental health service utilization and spending rates from January 2019 through August 2022.
Oct 5, 2023
Mariah Kalmin, Jonathan H. Cantor, Dena M. Bravata, Pen-Che Ho, Christopher M. Whaley, Ryan K. McBain
Journal Article
US State Laws Relevant to Incentives for Health Behavior: A Qualitative Analysis
The research team conducted a systematic NexisUni legal database review of state statutes and regulations effective during 2022 to identify laws relevant to contingency management.
Oct 5, 2023
Barbara Andraka-Christou, Michelle Williams, Scott Buksbaum, Josie Karkkainen, Bradley D. Stein, Sydney R. Batchelder, Kelly Peck, Sarah H. Heil, Richard A Rawson, Stacey C. Sigmon
Report
Evaluating Cryptographic Vulnerabilities Created by Quantum Computing in Industrial Control Systems
Migration to post-quantum cryptography to prepare for future capabilities of quantum computing has implications for industrial control and operational technology systems. These implications affect how system owners should prepare for the migration.
Oct 4, 2023
Michael J. D. Vermeer, Chad Heitzenrater, Edward Parker, Alvin Moon, Domenique Lumpkin, Jalal Awan, Patricia A. Stapleton
Report
Connector Survivability in the Current Operating Environment
Current operating concepts and an evolving threat environment demand that the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps reevaluate survivability in their analysis of the current and future fleet of Navy amphibious connectors.
Oct 4, 2023
Colin D. Smith, Stephen Webber
Commentary
The Drivers of and Outlook for Russian-Iranian Cooperation
The authors of this Perspective assess the factors that drive Russian-Iranian cooperation, examine the role of the Ukraine war in deepening the countries’ ties, and identify indicators to assess Russian-Iranian cohesion in the coming years.
Oct 4, 2023
Michelle Grisé, Alexandra T. Evans
Journal Article
Veteran Journeys: Creating an Opera Based on Research, Clinical, and Personal Experiences
RAND researcher Kenneth Wells shares his story in the form of an opera, Veteran Journeys, to encourage others to find a path to integrating clinical, personal, and creative experiences, to share meaningful stories of how people survive and thrive.
Oct 4, 2023
Kenneth B. Wells
Journal Article
Integration of Arts and Health Sciences in Developing an Opera on Veteran Resilience and Recovery
This case study illustrates how research data informed an opera on Veteran recovery. To engage a broad audience and address stigma, accessible composition techniques (melody, harmony) were used.
Oct 4, 2023
Kenneth B. Wells, Kia Skrine Jeffers, Joseph Mango

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