We consider the existence of at least one positive solution to the dynamic boundary value problem $$\begin{array}{cccc}\hfill -y^{\Delta \Delta }\left(t\right)& =\lambda f(t,y\left(t\right))\text{,}t\in {[0,T]}_{𝕋}y\left(0\right)\hfill & \hfill ={\int }_{{\tau }_1}^{{\tau }_2}{F}_1(s,y\left(s\right))\Delta sy\left({\sigma }^2\left(T\right)\right)& ={\int }_{{\tau }_3}^{{\tau }_4}{F}_2(s,y\left(s\right))\Delta s,\hfill \end{array}$$ where $𝕋$ is an arbitrary time scale with $0<{\tau }_1<{\tau }_2<{\sigma }^2\left(T\right)$ and $0<{\tau }_3<{\tau }_4<{\sigma }^2\left(T\right)$ satisfying ${\tau }_1$, ${\tau }_2$, ${\tau }_3$, ${\tau }_4\in 𝕋$, and where the boundary conditions at $t=0$ and $t={\sigma }^2\left(T\right)$ can be both nonlinear and nonlocal. This extends some recent results on second-order semipositone dynamic boundary value problems, and we illustrate these extensions with some examples.

The paper deals with the existence of multiple positive solutions for the boundary value problem $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}{\left(\varphi \left(p\left(t\right)u^{(n-1)}\right)\left(t\right)\right)}^{\text{'}}+a\left(t\right)f(t,u\left(t\right),u^{\text{'}}\left(t\right),...,u^{(n-2)}\left(t\right))=0,0<t<1,\hfill \\ u^{\left(i\right)}\left(0\right)=0,i=0,1,...,n-3,\hfill \\ u^{(n-2)}\left(0\right)=\sum _{i=1}^{m-2}{\alpha }_i{u}^{(n-2)}\left({\xi }_i\right),u^{(n-1)}\left(1\right)=0,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $\varphi :ℝ\to ℝ$ is an increasing homeomorphism and a positive homomorphism with $\varphi \left(0\right)=0$. Using a fixed-point theorem for operators on a cone, we provide sufficient conditions for the existence of multiple positive solutions to the above boundary value problem.

In this paper, we are concerned with the existence of one-signed solutions of four-point boundary value problems $$-u^{\text{'}\text{'}}+Mu=rg\left(t\right)f\left(u\right),u\left(0\right)=u\left(\epsilon \right),u\left(1\right)=u(1-\epsilon )$$ and $$u^{\text{'}\text{'}}+Mu=rg\left(t\right)f\left(u\right),u\left(0\right)=u\left(\epsilon \right),u\left(1\right)=u(1-\epsilon ),$$ where $\epsilon \in (0,1/2)$, $M\in (0,\infty )$ is a constant and $r>0$ is a parameter, $g\in C\left(\right[0,1],(0,+\infty \left)\right)$, $f\in C(ℝ,ℝ)$ with $sf\left(s\right)>0$ for $s\ne 0$. The proof of the main results is based upon bifurcation techniques.