The Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, D.C. (formerly the Washington DCJCC) is a Jewish Community Center located in the historic district of Dupont Circle. It serves the Washington, D.C. area through religious, cultural, educational, social, and sport center programs open to the public, although many programs are strongly linked to Jewish culture, both in the United States and in Israel. It is part of the JCC Association (JCCA), the umbrella organization for the Jewish Community Center movement, which includes more than 350 JCCs, YM-YWHAs, and camp sites in the U.S. and Canada, in addition to 180 local JCCs in the Former Soviet Union, 70 in Latin America, 50 in Europe, and close to 500 smaller centers in Israel.Among the many notable programs sponsored by the EDCJCC are Theater J, a theater group that has hosted world premieres of plays by noted Jewish playwrights such as Wendy Wasserstein, Richard Greenberg, and Ariel Dorfman; the Washington Jewish Music Festival; the Jewish Literary Festival; and the Washington Jewish Film Festival, that includes screenings both at the Center itself, and at other Washington, DC, institutions, including a number of foreign embassies representing nations that produced the films.The EDCJCC also houses the Hyman S. and Freda Bernstein Library, which includes a Jewish Heritage Video Collection, a children's reading collection, and a collection of genealogy books and materials. It is a constituent organization of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, serving Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia...C.S.C.C.C..
Introduction Systemic corticosteroids are reserved for short-term (≤10 days) use during acute flares of chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU). We describe corticosteroid use and associated outcomes in patients with CSU in the United States (US). Methods Adults diagnosed with CSU in the US HealthVerity insurance claims database (2016/01/01-2023/10/31) were included. Adverse events (AEs) and health care resource utilization (HCRU) occurring ≤1 year after the first prescription of systemic corticosteroids were analyzed. Patients using corticosteroids (within 15 days of CSU diagnosis only; no use ≤12 months pre-diagnosis) were stratified by total days of systemic corticosteroid supply, a proxy for duration of use (≤31 days [≤31D], >31 and ≤60 days [>31–≤60D], >60 days [>60D]). For non-corticosteroid users (non-users), AEs and HCRU were assessed for 1 year after a reference date derived from corticosteroid users. P values were generated from univariable binomial logistic regression models. IRB approval was unnecessary. Results Of 87,284 patients, AEs typically occurred in a higher proportion of corticosteroid users relative to non-users, respectively: the most common AEs included hypertension (28.9%, 25.6%), anxiety (25.0%, 21.1%), obesity (21.3%, 16.3%), fatigue (18.0%, 14.8%), and depression (16.0%, 13.6%). Generally, proportion of patients with AEs increased, with time on corticosteroids (Table). AE-related HCRU generally increased with longer corticosteroid use (≤31D, >31–≤60D, and >60D, respectively): inpatient admissions (15.4%, 18.5%, 25.1%), outpatient visits (68.7%, 71.2%, 75.0%), and emergency department visits (13.9%, 14.9%, 16.4%). Conclusion CSU-related corticosteroid use was associated with the occurrence of AEs. Similarly, AE-related HCRU typically correlated with increasing use of corticosteroids.
International finance is an increasingly complex issue and thus needs clear multilingual communication that enhances transparency, regulatory adherence and trust in the global markets. The paper explores the role of the translator as a language and cognitive intermediary in the formation of a coherent financial discourse between languages. The study bridges a significant gap in the translation literature since it examines the influence of translation of meaning, accuracy, and intercultural equivalence in specialized financial literature by a translator. The research utilizes a mixed-method approach involving a corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and self-reporting by translators to delve into a 180,000-word multilingual corpus of anonymized financial data translated between English, French and Ukrainian. The quantitative results show that the terminological accuracy is 0.93, and strategies of functional equivalence are applied in 41% of the cases and neologism or borrowing in 38% of cases, which means that the financial language is dynamic. The average readability score of translators improved by 12 points, the pragmatic alignment index was 0.88, and the reader understanding was enhanced by 15%, which gave the translator a total Translator Agency Index of 0.82.
