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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2007, Article ID 56813, 20 pages doi:10.1155/2007/56813 Research Article Asymptotics of Some Classes of Higher-Order Difference Equations ´ Stevo Stevic Received 9 February 2007; Accepted 23 April 2007 We present some methods for finding asymptotics of some classes of nonlinear higher- ´ order difference equations. Among others, we confirm a conjecture posed by S. Stevic m p (2005). Monotonous solutions of the equation y = A + (y / β y ) , n ∈ N , n n−k j =1 j n−qj 0 where p ,A ∈ (0, ∞), k, m ∈ N, q , j ∈ {1,... , m}, are natural numbers such that q q j 1 2 ··· qm, β ∈ (0,+∞), j ∈ {1,... , m}, m β = 1, and y −s ,y −s+1 , ... ,y −1 ∈ (0, ∞), where j j =1 j s = max {k, qm }, are found. A new inclusion theorem is proved. Also, some open problems and conjectures are posed. ´ Copyright © 2007 Stevo Stevic. This is an open access article distributed under the Cre- ative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Recently, there has been a great interest in studying properties of rational and nonlin- ear difference equations (c.f. [1–40] and the references therein). Those equations which model some real-life situations in population biology and ecology are of a particular in- terest. Thi