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🌱 Ambiente

13 de ago. de 2026

Southern California Edison's Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program

This report provides an interim review of Southern California Edison’s Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program, describing program activity to date and identifying issues that may inform future wildfire compensation program design

United States

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🌍 Geopolítica

12 de ago. de 2026

Defense Requirements Planning in Comparative Organizations

The authors examine the defense requirements processes of China, Russia, Australia, and the United Kingdom to better understand these systems, draw comparisons, and leverage potential practices for the U.S. Department of War

Global

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🌱 Ambiente

12 de ago. de 2026

Assessing the Energy Potential of Artificial Intelligence Data Center Sites

This brief describes a framework designed to assess possible data center sites for their energy potential. The framework is intended to serve as an energy-potential screening tool for planners, policymakers, and developers

United States

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💻 Tecnologia

12 de ago. de 2026

Testing Large Language Model Agents on the Use of Biological Tools for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening Evasion

Large language model agents demonstrate an emerging ability to use biological tools to redesign peptides and proteins for nucleic acid synthesis screening evasion, indicating that agents could lower expertise barriers for hazardous capabilities

United States

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🏛️ Política

11 de ago. de 2026

Clarifying Debates About Drug Decriminalization

This essay aims to reduce confusion about what decriminalization means and offer insights that will hopefully improve future policy debates

United States

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🏥 Saúde

11 de ago. de 2026

Clients’ Views and Experiences of Individual Placement and Support

This paper explores clients’ views and experiences of Individual Placement and Support for substance use to understand how the program is working across England, and whether any improvements can be made

England

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🏥 Saúde

11 de ago. de 2026

Effective Adaptations in Individual Placement and Support Delivery

This paper explores how the Individual Placement and Support model has been adapted for delivery in drug and alcohol treatment services in England

England

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💻 Tecnologia

7 de ago. de 2026

Interpreting Dual-Use Biology Benchmarks for Frontier AI

The authors find that many artificial intelligence (AI) benchmark tasks are no longer informative, but a frontier of difficult tasks remains so, with recent gains concentrated on difficult tasks theorized to be relevant to real-world risk

Global

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📈 Economia

7 de ago. de 2026

China's Retirement Reform and the 2035 Statutory Working-Age Window

Using a monthly birth-cohort simulation, the author estimates that China’s 2025 retirement reform keeps about 48 million additional people below statutory retirement ages in 2035, delaying the working-age decline without reversing population aging

China

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🏥 Saúde

6 de ago. de 2026

Private Equity Ownership in Hospice Care

A systematic review of 2012 to 2026 evidence on private equity ownership in US hospice care, synthesizing six studies on market trends, patient and family care experiences, and financial performance across ownership models

United States

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🏥 Saúde

6 de ago. de 2026

Veterans and Psychedelics

RAND researchers and expert panelists discuss new findings on U.S. veterans’ use and views of specific psychedelics, related clinical research, and the future of U.S. psychedelics policies affecting veterans

United States

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📈 Economia

6 de ago. de 2026

A Portfolio Assessment Approach to Inform Resource Allocation Decisions

The authors describe a structured process for evaluating portfolios within the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process, which can help support resource allocation in cross-cutting portfolios

United States

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