Efficient water use in California ([Report] - Rand ; R-2385-CSA/RF)

RAND Corporation

Rand

Fiscal containment of local and state government ([Report] - Rand Corporation ; R-2494-FF/RC)

Motivations and possible actions of potential criminal adversaries of U.S. nuclear programs ([Report] - The Rand Corporation ; R-2554-SL)

Choosing economically optimal health insurance coverage involves a tradeoff between risk reduction and the overuse of health care. This report examines this tradeoff empirically by estimating both the demand for health insurance and the demand for health services. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Health Insurance: The Trade-Off Between Risk Pooling and Moral Hazard, December 1989 (Rand Report)

Politics & Social Sciences

Manning, Willard G.

Marquis, M. Susan

Rand Health Insurance Experiment

National Center for Health Services Research and Health Care technolog

Social Sciences

UNKNO

Wartime Roles and Capabilities for the Unified Logistic Staff (Rand Report)

Schank, John F.

Stucker, James P.

Moore, S. Craig

Reference

Infrared Focal-Plane Array Cost Consideration in the Sdi Environment/R3873 (Rand Report)

Mundie, Lloyd G.

Hoffmayer, Karl J.

Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (U. S.)

Science & Math

Back to First Principles: U.S. Strategic Forces in the Emerging Environments/R-4260-Af (Project Air Force Report)

Shlapak, David A.

United States Air Force

Thaler, David E.

Energy Effects of Ending the Department of Defense's Use of Chemicals That Deplete Stratospheric Ozone

Lachman, Beth E.

National Defense Research Institute (U. S.)

Camm, Frank A

United States Assistant Secretary of Defense

Rand Corp

<p>This report describes the RAND Metadata Management System (RMMS), a system that manages metadata--definitional & descriptional information about databases, simulation models, & procedures--for relational databases such as those maintained in INGRES. Many of these databases have little documentation or other descriptional information to accompany them, making it difficult for users to understand the definitions, abbreviations, acronyms, & descriptions of the data elements stored & maintained in a database management system. The authors developed the RMMS with five major goals in mind: (1) provide complete, thorough, & standard database documentation; (2) record & manage information about different versions of each database; (3) maintain a history of the changes made to database tables, schema, or data values; (4) facilitate deriving databases for input to simulation models & for sharing among models; & (5) standardize the names of data elements that are conceptually the same but named differently or are named the same but are conceptually different. This report should be of help to users of other relational databases who would like to develop a similar metadata repository for their own set of databases.</p>

The Rand Metadata Management System (Rmms: A Metadata Storage Facility to Support Data Interoperability, Reuse, and Sharing (Rmms : A Metadata Storage ... Reuse, and Sharingmr-163-Osd/A/Af Series)

United States Army

United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense

Arroyo Center

Project Air Force (U. S.)

Business & Money

<p>In the region of Central Asia and South Caucasus, what is the potential for armed conflict, and how might such outbreaks escalate to a level that could involve U.S. forces? The authors evaluate the key political, economic, and societal faultlines underlying the likelihood of conflict in the region, assessing their implications for regional stability and for U.S. interests and potential involvement over the next 10 to 15 years.</p>

Faultlines Conflict Central Asia & the South Caucasus

History

Military

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