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The journal sincerely thanks the following individuals who reviewed one or more manuscripts during 2019: Barreto-Chaves, Maria Luiza M Giner-Soriano, Maria Mosqueira, M. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the discrepancy between Ingrid Bergman's screen roles and her off-screen persona. The public outrage over Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini is best explained by her off-screen image as a natural, wholesome family woman, someone with simple basic values who was modest in the storm of enormous publicity, hardworking at her craft, conscientious in dealing with others and forthright and honest in dealing with the press and someone who was downright spiritual in her dedication and commitment to her art and her family. The magnitude of the Bergman-Rossellini scandal resulted from a sense of betrayal on the part of the public, who thought Bergman was the kind of person who would never indulge in the kind of behavior she exhibited with Rossellini. The difficulty with this interpretation of the scandal is that for most of her career up until the scandal, Bergman often played the kind of women who might very well engage in the kind of behavior that resulted in the scandal with Rossellini.

We consider a parabolic equation with a drift term Δu+b∇u-ut=0. Under the condition divb=0, we prove that solutions possess dramatically better regularity than those provided by standard theory. For example, we prove continuity of solutions when not even boundedness is expected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a commentary on the emergence of biofeedback methods and concepts as a significant behavioral strategy in psychophysiological research, and it includes a discussion of some contemporary issues. Operant conditioning methods have been useful in defining physiological activities as behavioral responses or as patterns of responses and in showing that these activities are subject to voluntary control or behavioral regulation. Other psychological and biological models are being developed in order to examine in detail the processes involved from different viewpoints and to enhance the clinical potential of biofeedback methods. This has stimulated further research on the effects of voluntary control of somatomotor and cognitive processes in achieving relatively permanent change in physiological functions. The complex interaction of cognitive factors and biofeedback control is illustrated in laboratory research on the regulation of systolic blood pressure. Finally, the problem of stimulus control of physiological activities and the variability of such activities under different conditions are seen as methodological and practical issues deserving greater attention. Related recent research is briefly discussed on the potential of biofeedback and voluntary control methods as a means of altering physiological and perceptual responses to stressful stimuli. It is concluded that the problems and potentials of biofeedback have provided a major stimulus to further basic research in psychophysiology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A letter to the editor discussing a study that used the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey to analyze new blood pressure medication prescriptions for patients with uncontrolled hypertension is presented.