RAND researchers conducted a systematic review that synthesized evidence from randomized controlled trials of needle acupuncture — used adjunctively or as monotherapy — to provide estimates of its efficacy and safety for treating adults diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder.
Evaluating efforts to prevent violent extremism can be challenging. The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism uses checklists, worksheets, and templates to help program staff design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type, resources, and expertise and offers guidance on analyzing the resulting data to inform improvements.
The RAND Program Evaluation Toolkit for Countering Violent Extremism uses checklists, worksheets, and templates to help program staff design an evaluation that is appropriate for their program type, resources, and expertise and offers guidance on analyzing the resulting data to inform improvements. This report is a companion to the toolkit and provides background on its development and testing.
Officer special and incentive (S&I) pays are used to create incentives for officer retention to meet manning requirements. This report describes a methodology, based on RAND's dynamic retention model, for assessing how alternative S&I pay adjustments affect the retention of mental health care officers.
This RAND study examines the potential defence and security implications of the UK's decision to leave the EU. Specifically, it seeks to identify those policy areas, strategic concerns or military capabilities that might be most affected, as well as the spectrum of possible outcomes. The goal is to help policymakers to understand the key questions provoked by Brexit, and thus how they begin to plan for, mitigate and address these uncertainties.
This RAND study examines the potential defence and security implications of the UK's decision to leave the EU. Specifically, it seeks to identify those policy areas, strategic concerns or military capabilities that might be most affected, as well as the spectrum of possible outcomes. The goal is to help policymakers to understand the key questions provoked by Brexit, and thus how they begin to plan for, mitigate and address these uncertainties.
At the RAND Corporation, diversity is a core value. We believe a broad spectrum of backgrounds and perspectives provides creativity, imagination, and innovative thinking. Diversity is also a valuable asset in our work with communities and governments around the globe. The National Security Research Division's commitment to diversity includes engaging in research activities that address diversity-related issues.
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