Books written by Rand Corporation
-
Improving U.S. Air Force Readiness and Sustainability
This report seeks to promote discussion of the way the Air Force develops its weapon systems, manages its support resources, and conducts its wartime logistics operations.
-
An Implicit Review Method for Measuring the Quality of In-hospital Nursing Care of Elderly Congestive Heart Failure Patients
To structure the quality review, these questions guide the reviewer through specific aspects of nursing process: 1) assessment, 2) identification of problems, and 3) problem management, including development of nursing goals, interventions, ...
-
An Implicit Review Method for Measuring the Quality of In-hospital Nursing Care of Elderly Cerebrovascular Accident Patients
This manuscript documents the development of an implicit review method for assessing the quality of in-hospital nursing care for cerebrovascular accident patients.
-
Improving Perkins II Performance Measures and Standards: Lessons Learned from Early Implementers in Four States
The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990 required states to develop outcome-based accountability systems built around statewide performance measures and standards.
-
Improving Reserve Compensation: A Review of Current Compensation and Related Personnel and Training Readiness Issues
This report lays the basis for making recommendations for changes in military reservists' compensation by accomplishing two objectives: (1) to identify and analyze current reserve personnel and training-readiness problems that may be ...
-
Proceedings of the 6th Annual RAND-China Reform Forum Conference, August 28-29, 2003
The conferences seek to enhance mutual understanding among scholars and policymakers from China and the United States. This volume contains papers and discussant comments from the 2003 conference.
-
A Short Guide to Electric Utility Load Forecasting
This report briefly reviews the methods currently used to make such load forecasts, describes sources of variation between forecasts, and discusses the problems that confront electricity forecasters.
-
Government Contracting Options: A Model and Application
This report asks the question, How should the Air Force design its repair contracts to ensure high-quality, responsive repair?
-
The Sino-Soviet Rivalry and Chinese Security Debate
... Banning Garrett ( Harold Rosenbaum Associates ) , Paul Godwin ( The Air University ) , Harry Harding ( Stanford University ) , Harlan Jencks ( The Naval Postgraduate School ) , Robert Scalapino ( University of California ) ...
-
Securing Health: Lessons from Nation-building Missions
"Rebuilding public health and health care delivery systems has been an important component of nation-building efforts conducted after major conflicts.
-
Data Cleaning Procedures for the 1993 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Family Health Insurance Survey
RAND and Mathematica policy Research of Princeton, NJ, collaboratively designed the survey to investigate a health-insurance coverage, as well as access to and use of health services, in each of ten states.
-
Data Cleaning Procedures for the 1993 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Employer Health Insurance Survey
RAND designed the survey to assist states in defining problems with their employment-based health insurance markets and in analyzing the impacts of policy options.
-
The Cautious Welcome: The Legalization Programs of the Immigration Reform and Control Act
On December 10 , 1986 , the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace convened such a conference in Washington , D.C. See Doris Meissner , D.G. Papademetriou , and D. North , Legalization of Undocumented Aliens : Lessons From Other ...
-
Laying the Foundation for Successful School Leadership
This is because school and district contexts0́4which include school and district characteristics, practices, and policies0́4set the stage for principals0́9 performance and strongly influence their effectiveness.
-
Cost Element Handbook for Estimating Active and Reserve Costs
This report provides a reference handbook for cost analysts interested in estimating the various elements of costs associated with changes to the active and reserve force structure.
-
Obstacles to the Termination of Air Force Activities
To meet the requirements of the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, the Air Force may have to terminate some procurement and research and development programs.
-
Unit Cost Analysis: Executive Briefing
This report documents an executive briefing of a methodology for estimating the annual operating and support costs for similar units in the Active and Reserve components of the military services, and the results of case studies to which the ...
-
Implementation of the Study of Teaching in the DoDDs-Germany Region
RAND evaluated the implementation of a staff development program created by the Department of Defense Dependents Schools in 1989.
-
U.S. Immigration Policy and Global Interdependence
Kevin F. McCarthy, David F. Ronfeldt, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation.
-
Informing Patients about Drugs--analysis of Alternative Designs for Flurazepam Leaflets
Reder , L. M. , and J. R. Anderson , " A Comparison of Texts and Their Summaries : Memorial Consequences , ” Journal of ... Sackett , D. L. , R. B. Haynes , E. S. Gibson , B. C. Hackett , D. W. Taylor , R. S. Roberts , and A. L. Johnson ...