Brendan O’Connor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4976344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan O’Connor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Connor |
| SIGNATURE | O’CONNOR B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8999-5184 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Place-related representations in setting the stage for empathy
What makes people experience varying degrees of empathy? Common accounts emphasize interpersonal attributes, including victims' group membership or social proximity to observers. Here we elucidate a distinct process: imagining the scenes surrounding victims. Although imagination has been shown to moderate empathy, the relative importance of its representational components is unknown. Using fMRI (N = 48), we identified activation maps preferential…
Variation across Regions and Demographics in African American Language Morphosyntax
Social media data and computational tools have become increasingly powerful alternatives to traditional methods of data collection and annotation for sociolinguistic research. While not without their own drawbacks, these resources can help address critical problems faced by researchers, such as sparse data, the observer's paradox, and annotating corpora at scale. This article presents a Twitter dataset of 227 million conversational messages acros…
A Catalogue of British Bronze Age Axes, Including Basic Typology, Compositional Analyses and Associated Radiocarbon Dates
This archive lists ~8000 Bronze Age British axeheads, alongside associated compositional analyses, isotopic measurements and radiocarbon dates. It integrates several major existing data collection efforts and published catalogues, whilst also providing a self-consistent basic typology. It is archived as four related flat-sheet text files and could be reused to support quantitative assessment of geographic and temporal patterns in metalwork style,…
Jean Guilaine, Dominique Garcia, Jean Gascó & Enrique Aragón Nuñez. 2022. Rochelongue (Agde, Hérault)
Jean Guilaine, Dominique Garcia, Jean Gascó & Enrique Aragón Nuñez. 2022. Rochelongue (Agde, Hérault): lingots et bronzes protohistoriques par centaines dans la mer. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée; 978-2-36781-474-2 hardback €32. - Volume 97 Issue 393
How white is the global elite? An analysis of race, gender and network structure
Research on elites often utilizes network analysis to describe and analyse the interrelationships among elites and how their prominence varies by demographic characteristics. We examine the diversity of global elites through an analysis of the board members of large corporations, think tanks, international organizations, and transnational policy planning groups. Using new data, we provide the first descriptive picture of global elite networks in …
Environmental and economic impacts of solar‐powered integrated greenhouses
Greenhouse vegetable production plays a vital role in providing year‐round fresh vegetables to global markets, achieving higher yields, and using less water than open‐field systems, but at the expense of increased energy demand. This study examines the life cycle environmental and economic impacts of integrating semitransparent organic photovoltaics (OPVs) into greenhouse designs. We employ life cycle assessment to analyze six environmental impac…
The Late Bronze Age Spearheads of Britain, By Richard Davis, with a contribution by Peter Northover
"The Late Bronze Age Spearheads of Britain, By Richard Davis, with a contribution by Peter Northover." Archaeological Journal, 175(2), p. 396
Croig Cave
Activity within caves provides an important element of the later prehistoric and historic settlement pattern of western Scotland. This contribution reports on a small-scale excavation within Croig Cave, on the coast of north-west Mull, that exposed a 1.95 m sequence of midden deposits and cave floors that date between c 1700 BC and AD 1400. Midden analysis indicated the processing of a diverse range of small fish and the collection of shellfish t…
Censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media
With Twitter and Facebook blocked in China, the stream of information from Chinese domestic social media provides a case study of social media behavior under the influence of active censorship. While much work has looked at efforts to prevent access to information in China (including IP blocking of foreign Web sites or search engine filtering), we present here the first large–scale analysis of political content censorship in social media, i.e., t…
Late Bronze Age Pottery Production
Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century cal bc . Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post sett…
From Tweets to Polls
We connect measures of public opinion measured from polls with sentiment measured from text. We analyze several surveys on consumer confidence and political opinion over the 2008 to 2009 period, and find they correlate to sentiment word frequencies in contempora- neous Twitter messages. While our results vary across datasets, in several cases the correlations are as high as 80%, and capture important large-scale trends. The re- sults highlight th…
Martyn Barber Bronze and the Bronze Age
Middle Bronze Age dirks and rapiers from Scotland
Several Middle Bronze Age dirks and rapiers from Scotland are fully published for the first time; these include relatively recent discoveries from Loch Glashan, Argyll, and Skares, Ayrshire, Perthshire, and Poolewe
A group of bronze socketed axes from Eildon Mid Hill, near Melrose, Roxburghshire
In 1982, a group of seven socketed axes was found on the lower western slopes of Eildon Mid Hill, Ettrick and Lauderdale District, Borders Region. Although recovered from redeposited soil, the axes probably represent a hoard of the Ewart Park phase of the late Bronze Age. The find reinforces what appears to be a significant local concentration of contemporary metalwork around the Eildon Hills
A Bronze Spearhead and its Shaft from the River Thames at Hammersmith
Six Prehistoric Phalerae in the London Museum and a Discussion of other Phalerae from the British Isles
Six prehistoric bronze phalerae in the London Museum are published and other examples from Britain and Ireland are discussed. The phalerae are of continental manufacture or inspiration and show contacts with central Germany in Ha B I; Alpine Lake Pillages in Ha B 3; Austria, Bavaria, and Belgium in Ha C. The possible uses of phalerae as personal ornament, horse-gear, and shieldbosses are considere
From Tweets to Polls
We connect measures of public opinion measured from polls with sentiment measured from text. We analyze several surveys on consumer confidence and political opinion over the 2008 to 2009 period, and find they correlate to sentiment word frequencies in contempora- neous Twitter messages. While our results vary across datasets, in several cases the correlations are as high as 80%, and capture important large-scale trends. The re- sults highlight th…
How white is the global elite? An analysis of race, gender and network structure
Research on elites often utilizes network analysis to describe and analyse the interrelationships among elites and how their prominence varies by demographic characteristics. We examine the diversity of global elites through an analysis of the board members of large corporations, think tanks, international organizations, and transnational policy planning groups. Using new data, we provide the first descriptive picture of global elite networks in …
A Bronze Spearhead and its Shaft from the River Thames at Hammersmith
Six Prehistoric Phalerae in the London Museum and a Discussion of other Phalerae from the British Isles
Six prehistoric bronze phalerae in the London Museum are published and other examples from Britain and Ireland are discussed. The phalerae are of continental manufacture or inspiration and show contacts with central Germany in Ha B I; Alpine Lake Pillages in Ha B 3; Austria, Bavaria, and Belgium in Ha C. The possible uses of phalerae as personal ornament, horse-gear, and shieldbosses are considere
Croig Cave
Activity within caves provides an important element of the later prehistoric and historic settlement pattern of western Scotland. This contribution reports on a small-scale excavation within Croig Cave, on the coast of north-west Mull, that exposed a 1.95 m sequence of midden deposits and cave floors that date between c 1700 BC and AD 1400. Midden analysis indicated the processing of a diverse range of small fish and the collection of shellfish t…
Late Bronze Age Pottery Production
Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century cal bc . Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post sett…
Middle Bronze Age dirks and rapiers from Scotland
Several Middle Bronze Age dirks and rapiers from Scotland are fully published for the first time; these include relatively recent discoveries from Loch Glashan, Argyll, and Skares, Ayrshire, Perthshire, and Poolewe
Six Prehistoric Phalerae in the London Museum and a Discussion of other Phalerae from the British Isles
Six prehistoric bronze phalerae in the London Museum are published and other examples from Britain and Ireland are discussed. The phalerae are of continental manufacture or inspiration and show contacts with central Germany in Ha B I; Alpine Lake Pillages in Ha B 3; Austria, Bavaria, and Belgium in Ha C. The possible uses of phalerae as personal ornament, horse-gear, and shieldbosses are considere
A Bronze Spearhead and its Shaft from the River Thames at Hammersmith
A group of bronze socketed axes from Eildon Mid Hill, near Melrose, Roxburghshire
In 1982, a group of seven socketed axes was found on the lower western slopes of Eildon Mid Hill, Ettrick and Lauderdale District, Borders Region. Although recovered from redeposited soil, the axes probably represent a hoard of the Ewart Park phase of the late Bronze Age. The find reinforces what appears to be a significant local concentration of contemporary metalwork around the Eildon Hills
Middle Bronze Age dirks and rapiers from Scotland
Several Middle Bronze Age dirks and rapiers from Scotland are fully published for the first time; these include relatively recent discoveries from Loch Glashan, Argyll, and Skares, Ayrshire, Perthshire, and Poolewe
Martyn Barber Bronze and the Bronze Age
From Tweets to Polls
We connect measures of public opinion measured from polls with sentiment measured from text. We analyze several surveys on consumer confidence and political opinion over the 2008 to 2009 period, and find they correlate to sentiment word frequencies in contempora- neous Twitter messages. While our results vary across datasets, in several cases the correlations are as high as 80%, and capture important large-scale trends. The re- sults highlight th…
Censorship and deletion practices in Chinese social media
With Twitter and Facebook blocked in China, the stream of information from Chinese domestic social media provides a case study of social media behavior under the influence of active censorship. While much work has looked at efforts to prevent access to information in China (including IP blocking of foreign Web sites or search engine filtering), we present here the first large–scale analysis of political content censorship in social media, i.e., t…
Late Bronze Age Pottery Production
Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century cal bc . Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post sett…
Croig Cave
Activity within caves provides an important element of the later prehistoric and historic settlement pattern of western Scotland. This contribution reports on a small-scale excavation within Croig Cave, on the coast of north-west Mull, that exposed a 1.95 m sequence of midden deposits and cave floors that date between c 1700 BC and AD 1400. Midden analysis indicated the processing of a diverse range of small fish and the collection of shellfish t…
The Late Bronze Age Spearheads of Britain, By Richard Davis, with a contribution by Peter Northover
"The Late Bronze Age Spearheads of Britain, By Richard Davis, with a contribution by Peter Northover." Archaeological Journal, 175(2), p. 396
Environmental and economic impacts of solar‐powered integrated greenhouses
Greenhouse vegetable production plays a vital role in providing year‐round fresh vegetables to global markets, achieving higher yields, and using less water than open‐field systems, but at the expense of increased energy demand. This study examines the life cycle environmental and economic impacts of integrating semitransparent organic photovoltaics (OPVs) into greenhouse designs. We employ life cycle assessment to analyze six environmental impac…
How white is the global elite? An analysis of race, gender and network structure
Research on elites often utilizes network analysis to describe and analyse the interrelationships among elites and how their prominence varies by demographic characteristics. We examine the diversity of global elites through an analysis of the board members of large corporations, think tanks, international organizations, and transnational policy planning groups. Using new data, we provide the first descriptive picture of global elite networks in …
Jean Guilaine, Dominique Garcia, Jean Gascó & Enrique Aragón Nuñez. 2022. Rochelongue (Agde, Hérault)
Jean Guilaine, Dominique Garcia, Jean Gascó & Enrique Aragón Nuñez. 2022. Rochelongue (Agde, Hérault): lingots et bronzes protohistoriques par centaines dans la mer. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée; 978-2-36781-474-2 hardback €32. - Volume 97 Issue 393
A Catalogue of British Bronze Age Axes, Including Basic Typology, Compositional Analyses and Associated Radiocarbon Dates
This archive lists ~8000 Bronze Age British axeheads, alongside associated compositional analyses, isotopic measurements and radiocarbon dates. It integrates several major existing data collection efforts and published catalogues, whilst also providing a self-consistent basic typology. It is archived as four related flat-sheet text files and could be reused to support quantitative assessment of geographic and temporal patterns in metalwork style,…
Place-related representations in setting the stage for empathy
What makes people experience varying degrees of empathy? Common accounts emphasize interpersonal attributes, including victims' group membership or social proximity to observers. Here we elucidate a distinct process: imagining the scenes surrounding victims. Although imagination has been shown to moderate empathy, the relative importance of its representational components is unknown. Using fMRI (N = 48), we identified activation maps preferential…
Variation across Regions and Demographics in African American Language Morphosyntax
Social media data and computational tools have become increasingly powerful alternatives to traditional methods of data collection and annotation for sociolinguistic research. While not without their own drawbacks, these resources can help address critical problems faced by researchers, such as sparse data, the observer's paradox, and annotating corpora at scale. This article presents a Twitter dataset of 227 million conversational messages acros…
Archaeology (9 works) · Bronze (8 works) · Bronze Age (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geology (4 works)