Some new criteria have been established for the oscillation of higher-order forced nonlinear differential equation of the form Lnx(t) + q(t)F(x(t)) = e(t) according to the smart choice of a class of new auxiliary functions. No restriction is imposed on the forcing term e(t) as those assumed in [A.G. Kartsatos, Maintenance of oscillations under the effect of a periodic forcing term, Proc. Amer. ...

Oscillation criteria, extended Kamenev and Philos-type oscillation theorems for the nonlinear second order neutral delay differential equation with and without the forced term are given. These results extend and improve the well known results of Grammatikopoulos et. al., Graef et. al., Tanaka for the nonlinear neutral case and the recent results of Dzurina and Mihalikova for the neutral linear ...

The time evolution of quantum meson fields in the O(4) linear sigma model is investigated in a context of the dynamical chiral phase transition. It is shown that amplitudes of quantum pion modes are amplified due to both mechanisms of a parametric resonance and a resonance by the forced oscillation according to the small oscillation of the chiral condensate in the late time of chiral phase tran...

The within-breath change in reactance (Delta(rs)) measured by forced oscillation technique (FOT) at 5 Hz reliably detects expiratory flow limitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The present study compared this approach to the standard negative expiratory pressure (NEP) method. In total, 21 COPD patients were studied by applying both techniques to the same breath and in 15 pa...

Since the slowing of the trend of increasing surface air temperature (SAT) in the late 1990 s, intense interest and debate have arisen concerning the contribution of human activities to the warming observed in previous decades. Although several explanations have been proposed for the warming-trend slowdown (WTS), none has been generally accepted. We investigate the WTS using a recently develope...