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HindawiPublishingCorporation AbstractandAppliedAnalysis Volume2012,ArticleID546302,33pages doi:10.1155/2012/546302 ResearchArticle BoundedOscillation ofaForcedNonlinear NeutralDifferential Equation ZeqingLiu, YuguangXu, ShinMinKang, 1 2 3 andYoungChelKwun 4 1Department ofMathematics, LiaoningNormalUniversity,Dalian,Liaoning116029,China 2Department ofMathematics, KunmingUniversity,Kunming, Yunnan650214,China 3DepartmentofMathematicsandRINS,GyeongsangNationalUniversity,Jinju660-701,RepublicofKorea 4Department ofMathematics, Dong-AUniversity,Pusan614-714,RepublicofKorea Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoYoungChelKwun,yckwun@dau.ac.kr Received20December 2011;Accepted 5March2012 Academic Editor:MiroslavaRu?zˇiˇckov′a Copyright q2012ZeqingLiuetal. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,distribution, andreproduction in anymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. This paper isconcerned with thenth-order forced nonlinear neutral di?erential equation xt?  n m ptxτt qtfxσ t,xσ t,...,xσ t  gt, t ≥ t .Some necessary and i1 i i i 1 i2 ik i 0 su?cientconditions fortheoscillation ofbounded solutions andseveral su?cientconditions for theexistenceofuncountably manyboundedpositiveandnegativesolutionsoftheaboveequation are established. The results obtained in this paper improve and extend essentially some known resultsintheliterature. Fiveinteresting examples thatpointouttheimportance ofourresultsare alsoincluded. 1.Introduction Considerthefollowingnth-orderforcednonlinearneutraldi?erentialequation:  m xt?ptxτtn qitfixσi1t,xσi2t,...,xσikitgt, t≥t0, 1.1 i1 wheret0∈Randn,m,ki∈Nareconstantsfor1≤i≤m.Inwhatfollows,weassumethat A1p,g,τ,σij ∈Ct0, ∞,Randqi∈Ct0, ∞,R satisfythat lim τt lim σijt ∞, 1≤j≤ki, 1≤i≤m, 1.2 t→ ∞ t→ ∞  2 AbstractandAppliedAnalysis an