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
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