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Apr 29, 2025

Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for an Uncertain Future in Antarctica

This report presents an overview of the U.S. Coast Guard's (USCG's) current and historical role in Antarctica and characterizes how the future might change the USCG's role in the region using a strategic foresight workshop.
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Apr 28, 2025

Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for Future Gray-Zone Competition: Project Evergreen Analysis

This report presents key aspects of how the U.S. Coast Guard can contribute to national strategic priorities by enforcing the rules-based order and deterring aggressive behavior in the maritime domain to reduce ambiguity in the gray zone by the 2040s.
Expert Insights

Apr 24, 2025

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty and the Great Acceleration: The Role of Experts and Policy Analysis in a World in Transition

How should policy analysis best inform society’s attempts to navigate tumultuous times? Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty can provide vital information while helping repair broken conversations among experts, decisionmakers, and the public.
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Apr 23, 2025

Between-Visit Asthma Symptom Monitoring With a Scalable Digital Intervention: A Randomized Clinical Trial

This randomized controlled trial of a scalable symptom monitoring intervention found an increase in asthma-related quality of life but it did not reach the threshold for a minimally important change.
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Apr 23, 2025

The Case For Sustaining Wastewater Surveillance Capabilities In The US

Argues that preserving the capabilities delivered by the National Wastewater Surveillance System beyond 2025 should be a public health priority.
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Apr 23, 2025

Benchmarking the Transportation Security Administration’s Covert Index Testing Program

The Transportation Security Administration conducts covert testing programs, such as Index testing, to ensure security effectiveness. A RAND research team benchmarked this program against analogues and recommends steps for implementing standards.
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Apr 23, 2025

Algorithmic Advancement in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Advances with Projections for the Near Future

As artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities grow, so do AI policy concerns. In this report, the authors make projections about the direction, pace, and indicators of algorithmic advances to explore potential AI progress and help inform policymaking.
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Apr 18, 2025

Should I Use AI in My Wargame?

In settings where we have clear measures of effectiveness based on other tools and can cross check results, AI can help the wargaming community expand its reach. If, however, AI is used to replace human judgment, we risk a dangerous mirage of knowledge.
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Apr 17, 2025

Psychometric Properties of Patient-Reported Quality Measures for Community-Based Serious Illness Care

We adapted the Serious Illness Survey for Community-Based Care and field-tested the survey among Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees to create quality measures for use by MA or other organizations responsible for care of seriously ill individuals.
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Apr 14, 2025

Impact of Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration on Physician-Administered Drug Spending and Utilization

Vertical integration reduces care capacity, shifts care to hospital outpatient settings, and raises drug administration spending for hematology-oncology, ophthalmology, and rheumatology in Medicare. Drug spending also rises in hematology-oncology.
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Apr 14, 2025

Sources of Organizational Variability in Fatal Police Shootings in the USA

This study examines factors associated with variation in fatal police shooting rates across US agencies, particularly the role of differences in social context, randomness, and outlier agencies. It uses data from 2015-2020 in multilevel models.
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Apr 11, 2025

Alcohol and Cannabis Use, Social Networks, and Non-Reservation American Indian / Alaska Native Emerging Adults: A Multi-level Dyadic Analysis

The study investigated associations between social networks and alcohol and cannabis use among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) emerging adults (18-25 years old), with a focus on the potential protective influence of AI/AN traditional practices.

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Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for an Uncertain Future in Antarctica

Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for Future Gray-Zone Competition: Project Evergreen Analysis

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty and the Great Acceleration: The Role of Experts and Policy Analysis in a World in Transition

Between-Visit Asthma Symptom Monitoring With a Scalable Digital Intervention: A Randomized Clinical Trial

The Case For Sustaining Wastewater Surveillance Capabilities In The US

Benchmarking the Transportation Security Administration’s Covert Index Testing Program

Algorithmic Advancement in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Advances with Projections for the Near Future

Should I Use AI in My Wargame?

Psychometric Properties of Patient-Reported Quality Measures for Community-Based Serious Illness Care

Impact of Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration on Physician-Administered Drug Spending and Utilization

Sources of Organizational Variability in Fatal Police Shootings in the USA

Alcohol and Cannabis Use, Social Networks, and Non-Reservation American Indian / Alaska Native Emerging Adults: A Multi-level Dyadic Analysis

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Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for an Uncertain Future in Antarctica

Preparing the U.S. Coast Guard for Future Gray-Zone Competition: Project Evergreen Analysis

Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty and the Great Acceleration: The Role of Experts and Policy Analysis in a World in Transition

Between-Visit Asthma Symptom Monitoring With a Scalable Digital Intervention: A Randomized Clinical Trial

The Case For Sustaining Wastewater Surveillance Capabilities In The US

Benchmarking the Transportation Security Administration’s Covert Index Testing Program

Algorithmic Advancement in Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Advances with Projections for the Near Future

Should I Use AI in My Wargame?

Psychometric Properties of Patient-Reported Quality Measures for Community-Based Serious Illness Care

Impact of Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration on Physician-Administered Drug Spending and Utilization

Sources of Organizational Variability in Fatal Police Shootings in the USA

Alcohol and Cannabis Use, Social Networks, and Non-Reservation American Indian / Alaska Native Emerging Adults: A Multi-level Dyadic Analysis

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