Rand Corporation: 374 books
by Michael D. Rich, Charles Jr. Wolf, John Godges
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The cover story focuses on nine key issues in the 2012 U.S. presidential election--income inequality, health care costs, immigration reform, energy options, education, al Qaeda, Iraq, democratization in the Middle East, and China--while other stories cover the California court system, calorie counting,...
Counterinsurgency Scorecard
Afghanistan in Early 2011 Relative to the Insurgencies of the Past 30 Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
A core finding of previous RAND research on 30 years of insurgencies worldwide was that a conflict's overall score on a scorecard of 15 equally weighted good and 12 equally weighted bad counterinsurgency factors and practices perfectly predicted the ultimate outcome. Using the scorecard approach and...
Evaluating Novel Threats to the Homeland
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Cruise Missiles
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Changes in technology and adversary behavior will invariably produce new threats that must be assessed by defense and homeland security planners. An example of such a novel threat is the use of cruise missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by terrorist groups. Individual threats cannot be assessed...
Invisible Wounds of War
Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Since October 2001, approximately 1.64 million U.S. troops have been deployed for Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) in Afghanistan and Iraq. Early evidence suggests that the psychological toll of these deployments many involving prolonged exposure to combat-related stress over...
by Lynn E. Davis, Debra Knopman, Michael D. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Finding ways to safely store and ultimately dispose of nuclear waste remains a matter of considerable debate. This volume describes the steps needed to design a new, single-purpose organization to manage and dispose of commercial and defense high-level radioactive materials and examines three models...
by Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Radha Iyengar, Srikanth Kadiyala
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The U.S. Department of Defense is considering a change in policy to allow transgender military personnel to serve openly. A RAND study examined the health care needs of transgender personnel, the costs of gender transition–related care, and the potential readiness implications of a policy change....
Out of the Shadows
The Health and Well-Being of Private Contractors Working in Conflict Environments
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Private contractors have been deployed extensively around the globe for the past decade and may be exposed to many of the stressors that are known to have physical and mental health implications for military personnel. Results from a RAND survey offer preliminary findings about the mental and physical...
by Donna O. Farley, Melony E. Sorbero, Susan L. Lovejoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
To learn how hospital labor and delivery units can achieve effective and sustainable teamwork practices and how much such practices affect staff experiences and patient outcomes, RAND researchers studied five units as they implemented improvements in their teamwork practices over a one-year period....
Directors as Guardians of Compliance and Ethics Within the Corporate Citadel
What the Policy Community Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
RAND convened a symposium on the perspective and role of corporate boards of directors in overseeing their firms' ethics and compliance matters. These conference proceedings summarize the event and the discussions, which focused on oversight challenges that directors face, board responsibility for...
Surprise!
From CEOs to Navy SEALs: How a Select Group of Professionals Prepare for and Respond to the Unexpected
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
This report relates what professionals believe creates surprise, how they respond to it, and how the effects of surprise can be mitigated. RAND researchers interviewed representatives from 13 diverse professions and identified some common coping strategies, such as relying on past experience and trying to reduce the level of chaos in the environment.
by Lynn A. Karoly, Constantijin Panis, Constantijn Panis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
What are the forces that will continue to shape the U.S. workforce and workplace over the next 10 to 15 years? With its eye on forming sound policy and helping stakeholders in the private and public sectors make informed decisions, the U.S. Department of Labor asked RAND to look at the future of work....
Hedge Funds, Systemic Risk, and Dodd-Frank
The Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
These proceedings summarize the key themes and issues raised during a symposium on September 24, 2012, hosted by the RAND Center for Corporate Ethics and Governance. Discussion focused on the ways in which hedge funds might contribute to systemic risk and the extent to which recent financial reforms...
The Industrial Base for Carbon Dioxide Storage
Status and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
If policies aimed at large reductions of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are enacted, more carbon capture and storage will be needed. RAND researchers explored the ability of the industrial base supporting the transportation and sequestration of CO2 to expand, assessing the industrial base for transportation and injection of CO2 for both geologic storage and enhanced oil recovery.
by Jeremiah Goulka, Carl Matthies, Emma Disley
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
RAND researchers explored the U.S. and English forensic DNA analysis systems to find out whether England has capitalized more fully on their crime-fighting potential than the U.S. system, processing samples more quickly and providing more database hits for law enforcement.