We study integration of Banach space-valued functions with respect to Banach space-valued measures. We focus our attention on natural extensions to this setting of the Birkhoff and McShane integrals. The corresponding generalization of the Birkhoff integral was first considered by Dobrakov under the name $S^{*}$-integral. Our main result states that $S^{*}$-integrability implies McShane integrability in contexts in which the later notion is definable. We also show that a function is measurable and McShane integrable if and only if it is Dobrakov integrable (i.e. Bartle *-integrable).
In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are obtained for every bounded solution of \[ [y (t) - p (t) y (t - \tau )]^{(n)} + Q (t) G \bigl (y (t - \sigma )\bigr ) = f (t), \quad t \ge 0, \qquad \mathrm{(*)}\] to oscillate or tend to zero as $t \rightarrow \infty $ for different ranges of $p (t)$. It is shown, under some stronger conditions, that every solution of $(*)$ oscillates or tends to zero as $t \rightarrow \infty $. Our results hold for linear, a class of superlinear and other nonlinear equations and answer a conjecture by Ladas and Sficas, Austral. Math. Soc. Ser. B 27 (1986), 502–511, and generalize some known results.