Delay differential equations and dynamical systems : proceedings of a conference in honor of Kenneth Cooke held in Claremont, California, Jan. 13-16, 1990 / S. Busenberg, M. Martelli

Contents: Kenneth L. Cooke and Joseph Wiener, A survey of differential equations with piecewise continuous arguments (pp. 1–15); Jack K. Hale, Dynamics and delays (pp. 16–30); Paul Waltman, A brief survey of persistence in dynamical systems (pp. 31–40); Felix Albrecht and Gabriele Villari, Periodic orbits of planar polynomial Liénard systems with a small parameter (pp. 41–52); Herbert Amann, Hopf bifurcation in quaslinear reaction-diffusion systems (pp. 53–63); Ovide Arino, Monotone semi-flows which have a monotone first integral (pp. 64–75); Anna Capietto, Jean Mawhin and Fabio Zanolin, The coincidence degree of some functional-differential operators in spaces of periodic functions and related continuation theorems (pp. 76–87); L. A. V. Carvalho, On the stability of discrete equations and ordinary differential equations (pp. 88–97); G. Conti, P. Nistri and P. Zecca [Pietro Zecca], Systems of set-valued equations in Banach spaces (pp. 98–109); C. Corduneanu, Abstract Volterra equations and weak topologies (pp. 110–115); Odo Diekmann, Mats Gyllenberg and Horst R. Thieme, Semigroups and renewal equations on dual Banach spaces with applications to population dynamics (pp. 116–129); W. E. Fitzgibbon, J. J. Morgan, R. S. Sanders and S. J. Waggoner, Estimates for spatio-temporally dependent reaction diffusion systems (pp. 130–146); G. Fournier and M. Willem, The mountain circle theorem (pp. 147–160); Jeffery M. Franke and Harlan W. Stech, Extensions of an algorithm for the analysis of nongeneric Hopf bifurcations, with applications to delay-difference equations (pp. 161–175); Massimo Furi and Maria Patrizia Pera, The forced spherical pendulum does have forced oscillations (pp. 176–182); David Gurarie, Gerhard Kalisch, Mark Kon and Edward Landesman, Radial bounds for Schrödinger operators in Euclidean domains (pp. 183–190); P. Habets, L. Sanchez and M. Ramos [Miguel Ramos], Jumping nonlinearity for 2nd order ODE with positive forcing (pp. 191–203); Kenneth B. Hannsgen and Robert L. Wheeler, Moment conditions for a Volterra integral equation in a Banach space (pp. 204–209); William A. Harris, Jr. and Yasutaka Sibuya, Asymptotic behaviors of solutions of a system of linear ordinary differential equations as t-> (pp. 210–217); Tomasz Kaczynski, Implicit differential equations which are not solvable for the highest derivative (pp. 218–224); James Louisell, A stability analysis for a class of differential-delay equations having time-varying delay (pp. 225–242); George Seifert, On an interval map associated with a delay logistic equation with discontinuous delays (pp. 243–249).