Author: Herman Menck
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: management, design, registries, cancer, central
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1994-05-01
ISBN-10: 3718605791
ISBN-13: 9783718605798

Practical issues, including the use of computers, selection and training of professional, administrative and technical staff are included, along with quality control procedures, essential to assure the integrity of information kept by the registry. Follow-up procedures, sources of population data, calculation and interpretation of incidence rates and survival rates, and the differences between case-control studies and cohort studies (based on registry data) are also described. Prevention and control applications, and legal issues relative to the confidentiality of information in the data files

Author: C. Christine Fair
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: sri, lanka, india, pakistan, learned, lessons, battle, fields, south, asia, urban
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833036823
ISBN-13: 9780833036827

This study examines several case studies of sustained campaigns of urban terrorism perpetrated by various domestic groups in the countries of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. One focus of this research addresses the modus operandi of the militant outfits. It describes the tactics they employ, their targeting means and objectives, and the ways in which these groups have innovated and evolved over time. This report illuminates, where possible, links that militant groups forge with other such organizations within South Asia and beyond. This work also examines the ways in which the three states resp

Authors:Brian A. Jackson, John C. Baker, Peter Chalk, Kim
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: learning, five, terrorist, groups, organizational, studies, destruction, volume, case, aptitude
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833037676
ISBN-13: 9780833037671

Continuing conflicts between violent groups and states generate an ever-present demand for higher-quality and more timely information to support operations to combat terrorism. Better ways are needed to understand how terrorist and insurgent groups adapt over time into more-effective organizations and increasingly dangerous threats. Because learning is the link between what a group wants to do and its ability to gather the needed information and resources to actually do it, a better understanding of the group learning process could contribute to the design of more-effective measures for combat

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Publisher: RAND
Keywords: new, york, city, case, children, social, promotion, leaving, ending
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833047787
ISBN-13: 9780833047786

Many states and school districts are implementing test-based requirements for promotion at key transitional points in students’ schooling careers, thus ending the practice of

Author: Christine Eibner
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: assessing, new, approach, outlining, peacetime, military, medical, skills, maintaining
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833042912
ISBN-13: 9780833042910

Military medical personnel are tasked with fulfilling both the benefits mission and the readiness mission of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Currently, most military medical personnel are stationed at military treatment facilities (MTFs) during peacetime, where they maintain their clinical skills by treating beneficiaries of TRICARE, the military health care program. However, the medical skills required during deployment are likely to differ significantly from those required at MTFs. Alternative arrangements for maintaining medical skills for deployment may be needed. One alternative wou

Author: Eric V. Larson Bogdan Savych
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: civilian, deaths, wartime, reactions, public, war, press, misfortunes
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833038974
ISBN-13: 9780833038975

This monograph, part of a larger study of ways to reduce collateral damage undertaken for the U.S. Air Force, analyzes media and public reactions to civilian casualty incidents, whether these incidents affect media reporting or public support for military operations, and, if so, how. It analyzes case studies of incidents of civilian deaths in the February 1991 bombing of the Al Firdos bunker in the Gulf War, the April and May 1999 attacks on the Djakovica convoy and Chinese embassy during the war in Kosovo, the June 2002 attack involving an Afghan wedding party during operations in Afghanistan

Authors:Edward Balkovich, Tora K. Bikson, Gordon Bitko
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: identification, usage, workplace, frequency, radio, knows, case, studies, boss
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833037196
ISBN-13: 9780833037190

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are finding their way into a broad range of new applications that have raised concerns about privacy that demonstrate how emerging information technologies can upset the balance of privacy, personal benefits, and public safety and security. Although proposed retail uses are new, RFID tags have been used to control access in the workplace for over a decade. The authors conducted a case study of six enterprises to understand their policies for collecting, retaining, and using personally identifiable records obtained by sensing RFID-based access cards. T