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Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 390543, 16 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/390543
Research Article
Positive Solutions to Boundary Value Problems of Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations
1School of Science, University of Jinan, Jinan, Shandong 250022, China
2Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, MO 65409-0020, USA
Received 23 September 2010; Revised 5 November 2010; Accepted 6 December 2010
Academic Editor: Josef Diblík
Copyright © 2011 Yige Zhao et al. 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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