Laws of large numbers

67 σ.Η συγκεκριμένη διπλωματική εργασία έχει ως αντικείμενο την καταγραφή των ασθενών και των ισχυρών νόμων των μεγάλων αριθμών. Παρουσιάζεται επίσης η σύγκριση μεταξύ του κλασικού ισχυρού νόμου και του ισχυρού νόμου του ETEMADI, καθώς και οι αποδείξεις τους. Παραθέτονται επίσης βασικές έννοιες και θεωρήματα από την θεωρία πιθανοτήτων.This thesis is designed to record weak and strong laws of large numbers. Also shows the comparison between the classical strong law and strong law of ETEMADI, and the proofs. It also lists key concepts and theorems of probability theory.Χρήστος Γ. Ζαβιτσάνο

URBAN LIVING, TOBACCO SMOKING, AND CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY-DISEASE - A STUDY IN ATHENS

We studied the relation of urban living and tobacco smoking to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The study was based on 110 incident cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease between 50 and 60 years of age who were permanent residents of Athens and 400 control patients hospitalized for traumatic and orthopedic conditions in the same hospitals at the same time. All subjects were interviewed about their smoking habits, place of birth, history of past residence, and years of schooling. We found that subjects with more education have a reduced risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, with 4 additional years of schooling corresponding to a 30% reduction of risk. We also found that those who have lived all their lives in urban areas (mostly in Athens) have a twofold greater risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease compared with people who have lived exclusively or partly in rural areas before settling in Athens. Finally, we found that smokers have a 10-fold relative risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and this risk is strongly dependent on the number of cigarettes consumed per day. The findings of the present study suggest that air pollution, or another aspect of the urban environment, can be an important contributor to the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

The Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2023)

This paper presents the results and findings of the Financial Narrative Summarisation Shared Task on summarising UK, Greek, and Spanish annual reports. The shared task was organised as part of the 5th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2023). The Financial Narrative summarisation Shared Task (FNS 2023) has been running since 2020 as part of the Financial Narrative Processing (FNP) workshop series [15–20]. The shared task included one main challenge, which is the use of either abstractive or extractive automatic summarisers to summarise long documents in terms of UK, Greek, and Spanish financial annual reports. This shared task is the fourth to target financial documents. The data for the shared task was created and collected from publicly available annual reports published by firms listed on the Stock Exchanges of the UK, Greece, and Spain. A total number of 6 systems from 3 different teams participated in the shared task