Kirk Scott

Working Group Reports and Supplemental Proceedings SIGCSE/SIGCUE ITiCSE'97 The Web and distance learning: what is appropriate and what is not Report of the ITiCSE’97 Working Group on the Web and Distance Learning (2007)

Jean Dewitt, Mihaela Dumitru, Constance G. Bland, Eva R. Fahraeus, Kirk Scott, Dawn Cizmar

Abstract practices illustrate the inappropriateness of fitting old The World Wide Web is increasingly being used to provide opportunities for distance learning. This report explores the motivations...

DLOTS: A Distributed Level Ordered Transaction Scheduler (2007)

Qinghua Zou, Kirk Scott, Qin Ding, William Perrizo

Abstract Locking and time-stamp are two basic ways for concurrency control (CC). In distributed database system, CC based on locking will cause global blocking. Time stamp is suited for distributed...

Integrating Query Processing and Data Mining in Relational DBMSs (2007)

Qiang Ding, William Perrizo, Victor Shi, Kirk Scott

In a database system, careful selection, project, and join (SPJ) optimisation methods are needed to achieve good performance. This is an area of much research in the past two decades, yet much...

Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state: The role of labor-market status, country of origin, and gender (2007)

Gunnar Andersson, Kirk Scott

This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on the life histories of...

The Times They Are A-Changin': Declining Immigrant Employment Opportunities in Scandinavia (2006)

Rosholm, Michael, Husted, Leif, Scott, Kirk

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985-1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture...

Labour-market status and first-time parenthood: the experience of immigrant women in Sweden, 1981-97 (2005)

Andersson, Gunnar, Scott, Kirk

This paper investigates the impact of labour-market attachment on first births of foreign-born women in Sweden. The study uses a longitudinal, register-based dataset consisting of the entire...

Labour-market attachment and entry into parenthood: The experience of immigrant women in Sweden (2004)

Andersson, Gunnar, Scott, Kirk

This paper investigates the impact of labour-market attachment on entry into motherhood for foreign-born women in Sweden. The study uses a longitudinal, register-based data set consisting of the...

Faculté des sciences appliquées UCL Université catholique de Louvain Concepts First in Introductory CS Courses (2003)

Juris Reinfelds, Peter Van Roy, Joe Bergin, Jonathan Bredin, Richard Rasala, Kirk Scott, ...

Multi-language, multi-thread, multi-paradigm, net-centric programming is becoming widely used. Our teaching of programming has to adapt to the requirements of these new directions. How can we do that...

The Immigrant Experience: Changing Employment and Income Patterns in Sweden, 1970 - 1993. (1999)

Scott, Kirk

This thesis explores the changing patterns of employment and income assimilation among male immigrants to Sweden. In brief, the results of this work are that immigrants have been facing an...

Multiway Equijoin Query Acceleration Using Hit-Lists (1992)

Kirk Scott, William Perrizo, James Gustafson, Susan Schilling

This paper presents a new data structure for multiway and general join query acceleration, the hit-list, and an algorithm for its use. The hit-list is a surrogate index providing the mapping between...

Labour-market attachment and entry into parenthood: The experience of immigrant women in Sweden

Gunnar Andersson, Kirk Scott

This paper investigates the impact of labour-market attachment on entry into motherhood for foreign-born women in Sweden. The study uses a longitudinal, register-based data set consisting of the...

Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state: the role of labor-market status, country of origin, and gender

Gunnar Andersson, Kirk Scott

In this paper, we provide a study of childbearing dynamics by the labor-market status of co-residing one- and two-child parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register...

The Times They are A-Changin': Organizational Change and Immigrant Employment Opportunities in Scandinavia

Rosholm, Michael, Scott, Kirk, Husted, Leif

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a...

The Times They Are A-Changin' Organizational Change and Immigrant Employment Opportunities in Scandinavia

Rosholm, Michael, Scott, Kirk, Husted, Leif

This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985-1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture...

Workplace, Human Capital and Ethnic Determinants of Sickness Absence in Sweden, 1993–2001

Bengtsson, Tommy, Scott, Kirk

This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and...

Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state

Gunnar Andersson, Kirk Scott

This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on the life histories of...