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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society Volume 2010, Article ID 610467, 17 pages doi:10.1155/2010/610467 Research Article Boundedness and Global Attractivity of a Higher-Order Nonlinear Difference Equation Xiu-Mei Jia1, 2 and Wan-Tong Li2 1 Department of Mathematics, Hexi University, Zhangye, Gansu 734000, China 2 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China Correspondence should be addressed to Wan-Tong Li, wtli@ Received 5 November 2009; Accepted 4 February 2010 Academic Editor: Guang Zhang Copyright q 2010 X.-M. Jia and W.-T. Li. 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. We investigate the local stability, prime period-two solutions, boundedness, invariant intervals, and global attractivity of all positive solutions of the following difference equation: yn1 r py y /qy y , n ∈ N , where the parameters p, q, r ∈ 0, ∞, k ∈ {1, 2, 3, . . . } and the initial n n−k n n−k 0 conditions y−k , . . . , y0 ∈ 0, ∞. We show that the unique positive equilibrium of this equation is a global attractor under certain conditions. 1. Introduction and Preliminaries Our aim in this paper is to study the dynamical behavior of the following rational difference equation r pyn yn−k y , n ∈ N , 1.1 n1 0 qyn yn−k where p, q, r ∈ 0, ∞, N0 ∈ {0, 1, . . . }, k ∈ {1, 2, 3, . . . } an