Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 653243, 8 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/653243
Research Article

The Behavior of Positive Solutions of a Nonlinear Second-Order Difference Equation

1Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Science, Knez Mihailova 35/I, Beograd 11000, Serbia
2Department of Mathematics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA

Received 16 August 2007; Accepted 8 December 2007

Academic Editor: Allan C. Peterson

Copyright © 2008 Stevo Stević and Kenneth S. Berenhaut. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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