Quarterly Letter: The Best Safety Value

Best Practice Rail Safety Regulation

Best Linear Unbiased Disaggregation of Annual GDP to Quarterly Figures: The Case of Malaysia

Long series of quarterly GDP ®gures are still not available for many countries. This paper suggests an empirical procedure adapted from Chow and Lin (1971) to derive quarterly estimates from annual GDP ®gures and produces quarterly GDP by sectors for Malaysia from 1973Q1 onwards. A comparison of these estimates with some univariate interpolations using published quarterly ®gures for recent year...

The Value of Private Safety Versus the Value of Public Safety

In this study, one group of respondents is offered to purchase a safety device to be installed in their cars, while another group is offered a public safety, program (improved road quality) which results in the same size risk reduction. In terms of the value of a statistical life, our results are very, reasonable. However, the WTP for the private safety device is higher than the WTP for the pub...

Response to Letter "Working toward Best Practice: Microbubble Filtration and Patient Safety during Extracorporeal Circulation" by Daniel P. Herbst.

We thank Mr. Herbst for his comments and review of our article “Air transmission comparison of the Affinity Fusion oxygenator with an integrated arterial filter to the Affinity NT oxygenator with a separate arterial filter.” We designed this in vitro study to answer the question of whether the Fusion oxygenator with its integrated arterial filter was as safe as our clinically used Affinity NT o...

Role of Psychological Factors on the Safety and Efficacy of the Coronavirus 2019 Vaccine (COVID-19): Letter to the Editor

Introduction: Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), as the biggest threat to public health in 2020, has caused many problems to people around the world during the current year. The COVID-19, which first appeared in Wuhan, China, was designated as acute respiratory syndrome 2 by the International Commission on Classification of Diseases World Health Organization and on March 11, 2020, it was introduced a...