“…Since then, great efforts have been devoted to the multi-point boundary value problems for more general nonlinear ordinary differential equations due to its theoretical challenge and its great potential applications; see for example [1,6,8,9,10,11,12,14,15,16,17,18,19,21,22,25,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39] and the references therein. Some theorems and methods of nonlinear functional analysis have been applied to research on this problem, such as the method of topological degree and Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem [15,30,31,33,34,37], the upper and lower solutions method and monotone iterative technique [38], and Mawhin coincidence degree theory [21,22].…”