David E Spencer
Biographic Data
| ID | 818300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David E Spencer |
| GIVEN NAMES | David E |
| FAMILY NAME | Spencer |
| SIGNATURE | SPENCER D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3971-871X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The wellbeing gap between immigrants and natives
Introduction: Existing research has examined immigrants' subjective wellbeing and economic integration but less is known about whether multiple dimensions of social integration jointly account for differences in subjective wellbeing between immigrants and natives in the UK. This paper examines whether British identity, community involvement, neighborhood attachment and UK-based social networks help explain this disparity. Methods: The analysis us…
Blended Legacies
The article analyzes the phenomenon of blended legacies. It is defined as the local synthesis of foreign guerrilla warfare traditions that the FARC-EP adopted to gain the advantage in their own war. We focus on Vietnamese influence within FARC-EP. The text tracks three types of connections between the FARC-EP and the guerrilla warfare legacies: first, early influence of Vietnamese and Maoist guerrilla political, strategic and tactical literature,…
Development and Evaluation of the Dynamic Left Turn Intersection
Dual left turn lanes are typically operated with protected left turn signals, which means extra delay during non-peak hours compared to permissive operation. To reduce this delay, the authors designed, installed, and tested a “dynamic left turn intersection” (DLTi), which is a new way to operate dual left turn lanes. With DLTi, the both lanes are operated with protected phasing during the peak hours when higher capacity is needed, and only the le…
Deaf citizens as jurors in Australian courts
Australian deaf citizens are currently not permitted to perform jury duty, primarily due to their inability to hear the evidence and deliberate without the help of interpreters. Although interpreters are routinely employed to interpret for defendants or witnesses in court, current legal frameworks do not permit interpreters to enter the deliberation room as a ‘thirteenth person’, for fear that they may influence the jurors in their decision-makin…
Jury instructions
This project investigated the capacity of deaf people using Australian Sign Language (Auslan) to serve as jurors. Following on from a pilot study with 6 deaf and 6 hearing people acting as ‘jurors’ (see Napier & Spencer, 2007, 2008), this project replicated the method of the earlier study, and compared the level of comprehension of 30 deaf jurors to a control group of 30 non-deaf (‘hearing’) jurors from three different major cities in Australia; …
Justice is blind as long as it isn’t deaf
In the wake of a recent decision by the High Court of Australia, currently a deaf person, who relies on sign language, is not able to serve as a juror because Australian law does not permit the swearing in of an interpreter as the ‘13th person’ in the jury room. In 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities found that Australia is in breach of its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Di…
Bolivia, a new model insurgency for the 21st century
In Bolivia, a brilliantly executed insurgency was carried out between 1995 and 2005, so much so that few perceived it as such. Its most important characteristic was its correct evaluation of the relative correlation of forces and application of the right combination of all forms of struggle. This was possible because of its pragmatism. Though not bound by ideological dogmatism, it nonetheless displayed a deep understanding of insurgency and revol…
A preliminary investigation of cognitive function in rheumatoid arthritis patients on long-term methotrexate treatment
Some studies suggest that cognitive function is impaired in rheumatoid arthritis patients. One possible influence may be commonly used rheumatoid arthritis treatment, methotrexate. This study examined cognitive function in long-term methotrexate users with rheumatoid arthritis and, using a 24-hour pre- and post-methotrexate dose administration, investigated whether there may be transient cognitive function changes. Rheumatoid arthritis patients (…
From Vietnam to El Salvador
Spencer provides a history of the FMLN guerrilla special forces—known collectively by the acronym FES—in El Salvador. Trained in Cuba and Vietnam and utilizing techniques taken from the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army, the FES terrorized the armed forces of El Salvador from 1981 to 1992. After reviewing their training, Spencer examines the major operations of the special forces and gives an in-depth discussion of their tactics and methods…
Strategy and Tactics of the Salvadoran FMLN Guerrillas
Money Demand and the Price Level
The Stability of the Demand for Money
Recent studies by Enzler, Johnson, and Paulus (1976), and Goldfeld (1976) have offered extensive evi. dence consistent with the claim that the demand for money function has shifted. In particular, both of these studies find that specifications of the demand for money equation, when fitted beyond 1973 consistently overpredict the actual demand for money and that the forecast errors are large. However, a recent paper by Hamburger (1977), using an a…
The Stability of the Demand for Money
Justice is blind as long as it isn’t deaf
In the wake of a recent decision by the High Court of Australia, currently a deaf person, who relies on sign language, is not able to serve as a juror because Australian law does not permit the swearing in of an interpreter as the ‘13th person’ in the jury room. In 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities found that Australia is in breach of its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Di…
Bolivia, a new model insurgency for the 21st century
In Bolivia, a brilliantly executed insurgency was carried out between 1995 and 2005, so much so that few perceived it as such. Its most important characteristic was its correct evaluation of the relative correlation of forces and application of the right combination of all forms of struggle. This was possible because of its pragmatism. Though not bound by ideological dogmatism, it nonetheless displayed a deep understanding of insurgency and revol…
The Stability of the Demand for Money
The Stability of the Demand for Money
Recent studies by Enzler, Johnson, and Paulus (1976), and Goldfeld (1976) have offered extensive evi. dence consistent with the claim that the demand for money function has shifted. In particular, both of these studies find that specifications of the demand for money equation, when fitted beyond 1973 consistently overpredict the actual demand for money and that the forecast errors are large. However, a recent paper by Hamburger (1977), using an a…
Money Demand and the Price Level
From Vietnam to El Salvador
Spencer provides a history of the FMLN guerrilla special forces—known collectively by the acronym FES—in El Salvador. Trained in Cuba and Vietnam and utilizing techniques taken from the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army, the FES terrorized the armed forces of El Salvador from 1981 to 1992. After reviewing their training, Spencer examines the major operations of the special forces and gives an in-depth discussion of their tactics and methods…
Strategy and Tactics of the Salvadoran FMLN Guerrillas
A preliminary investigation of cognitive function in rheumatoid arthritis patients on long-term methotrexate treatment
Some studies suggest that cognitive function is impaired in rheumatoid arthritis patients. One possible influence may be commonly used rheumatoid arthritis treatment, methotrexate. This study examined cognitive function in long-term methotrexate users with rheumatoid arthritis and, using a 24-hour pre- and post-methotrexate dose administration, investigated whether there may be transient cognitive function changes. Rheumatoid arthritis patients (…
Deaf citizens as jurors in Australian courts
Australian deaf citizens are currently not permitted to perform jury duty, primarily due to their inability to hear the evidence and deliberate without the help of interpreters. Although interpreters are routinely employed to interpret for defendants or witnesses in court, current legal frameworks do not permit interpreters to enter the deliberation room as a ‘thirteenth person’, for fear that they may influence the jurors in their decision-makin…
Jury instructions
This project investigated the capacity of deaf people using Australian Sign Language (Auslan) to serve as jurors. Following on from a pilot study with 6 deaf and 6 hearing people acting as ‘jurors’ (see Napier & Spencer, 2007, 2008), this project replicated the method of the earlier study, and compared the level of comprehension of 30 deaf jurors to a control group of 30 non-deaf (‘hearing’) jurors from three different major cities in Australia; …
Justice is blind as long as it isn’t deaf
In the wake of a recent decision by the High Court of Australia, currently a deaf person, who relies on sign language, is not able to serve as a juror because Australian law does not permit the swearing in of an interpreter as the ‘13th person’ in the jury room. In 2016, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities found that Australia is in breach of its obligations under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Di…
Bolivia, a new model insurgency for the 21st century
In Bolivia, a brilliantly executed insurgency was carried out between 1995 and 2005, so much so that few perceived it as such. Its most important characteristic was its correct evaluation of the relative correlation of forces and application of the right combination of all forms of struggle. This was possible because of its pragmatism. Though not bound by ideological dogmatism, it nonetheless displayed a deep understanding of insurgency and revol…
Development and Evaluation of the Dynamic Left Turn Intersection
Dual left turn lanes are typically operated with protected left turn signals, which means extra delay during non-peak hours compared to permissive operation. To reduce this delay, the authors designed, installed, and tested a “dynamic left turn intersection” (DLTi), which is a new way to operate dual left turn lanes. With DLTi, the both lanes are operated with protected phasing during the peak hours when higher capacity is needed, and only the le…
Blended Legacies
The article analyzes the phenomenon of blended legacies. It is defined as the local synthesis of foreign guerrilla warfare traditions that the FARC-EP adopted to gain the advantage in their own war. We focus on Vietnamese influence within FARC-EP. The text tracks three types of connections between the FARC-EP and the guerrilla warfare legacies: first, early influence of Vietnamese and Maoist guerrilla political, strategic and tactical literature,…
The wellbeing gap between immigrants and natives
Introduction: Existing research has examined immigrants' subjective wellbeing and economic integration but less is known about whether multiple dimensions of social integration jointly account for differences in subjective wellbeing between immigrants and natives in the UK. This paper examines whether British identity, community involvement, neighborhood attachment and UK-based social networks help explain this disparity. Methods: The analysis us…
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Demand for money (3 works) · Interpreter (3 works) · Jury (3 works) · Keynesian economics (3 works)