In this paper we prove two results. The first is an extension of the result of G. D. Jones [4]: (A) Every nontrivial solution for $$\left\}\begin{array}{c}{(-1)}^n{u}^{\left(2n\right)}+f(t,u)=0,\text{in}(\alpha ,\infty ),u^{\left(i\right)}\left(\xi \right)=0,i=0,1,\cdots ,n-1,\text{and}\xi \in (\alpha ,\infty ),\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ must be unbounded, provided $f(t,z)z\ge 0$, in $E\times ℝ$ and for every bounded subset $I$, $f(t,z)$ is bounded in $E\times I$. (B) Every bounded solution for ${(-1)}^n{u}^{\left(2n\right)}+f(t,u)=0$, in $ℝ$, must be constant, provided $f(t,z)z\ge 0$ in $ℝ\times ℝ$ and for every bounded subset $I$, $f(t,z)$ is bounded in $ℝ\times I$.

The higher order neutral functional differential equation $$\frac{{\mathrm{d}}^n}{\mathrm{d}{t}^n}\left[x\left(t\right)+h\left(t\right)x\left(\tau \right(t\left)\right)\right]+\sigma f\left(t,x\left(g\right(t\left)\right)\right)=0\left(1\right)$$ is considered under the following conditions: $n\ge 2$, $\sigma =\pm 1$, $\tau \left(t\right)$ is strictly increasing in $t\in [t_0,\infty )$, $\tau \left(t\right)<t$ for $t\ge t_0$, ${lim}_{t\to \infty }\tau \left(t\right)=\infty$, ${lim}_{t\to \infty }g\left(t\right)=\infty$, and $f(t,u)$ is nonnegative on $[t_0,\infty )\times (0,\infty )$ and nondecreasing in $u\in (0,\infty )$. A necessary and sufficient condition is derived for the existence of certain positive solutions of (1).

In this paper, the oscillation criteria for solutions of the neutral delay differential equation (NDDE) $${\left(y\left(t\right)-p\left(t\right)y\left(t-\tau \right)\right)}^{\left(n\right)}+\alpha Q\left(t\right)G\left(y\left(t-\sigma \right)\right)=f\left(t\right)$$ has been studied where $p\left(t\right)=1$ or $p\left(t\right)\le 0$, $\alpha =\pm 1$, $Q\in C\left([0,\infty ),R^{+}\right)$, $f\in C\left(\right[0,\infty ),R)$, $G\in C(R,R)$. This work improves and generalizes some recent results and answer some questions that are raised in [1].

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in ${ℝ}^n$ with a smooth boundary $\Gamma$. In this work we study the existence of solutions for the following boundary value problem: $$\frac{{\partial }^{2}y}{\partial t^2}-M\left({\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla y\right|}^2\mathrm{d}x\right)\Delta y-\frac{\partial }{\partial t}\Delta y=f\left(y\right)\text{in}Q=\Omega \times (0,\infty ),.1y=0\text{in}{\Sigma }_1={\Gamma }_1\times (0,\infty ),M\left({\int }_{\Omega }{\left|\nabla y\right|}^2\mathrm{d}x\right)\frac{\partial y}{\partial \nu }+\frac{\partial }{\partial t}\left(\frac{\partial y}{\partial \nu }\right)=g\text{in}{\Sigma }_0={\Gamma }_0\times (0,\infty ),y\left(0\right)=y_0,\frac{\partial y}{\partial t}\left(0\right)=y_1\text{in}\Omega ,\left(1\right)$$ where $M$ is a $C^1$-function such that $M\left(\lambda \right)\ge {\lambda }_0>0$ for every $\lambda \ge 0$ and $f\left(y\right)={\left|y\right|}^{\alpha }y$ for $\alpha \ge 0$.