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The authors consider three kinds of boundary value problems for the system of \(m\) quasilinear elliptic partial differential equations \[ (\Delta u)(x) + p(r(x)) f(u(x))=0, \qquad 0<A<r(x)<B, \tag \(*\) \] where \(r(x) = \sqrt{x_1^2+\dots+x_n^2}\), \(n\geq 1\), \(p(r)= \mathrel{\text{diag}} \{p_1(r), p_2(r),\dots, p_m(r)\}\), \(m\geq 1\); \(f: \mathbb{R}^m \to \mathbb{R}^m\) is nonnegative on \([0,\infty)^m\) and has either superlinear or sublinear growth. Assuming some additional conditions, the authors establish the existence of a nontrivial nonnegative radial solution \(u=u(r)\) to \((*)\) satisfying \(u(A)=u(B)=0\), \(u(A)=u'(B)=0\), or \(u'(A)=u(B)=0\). The proof is based upon the Krasnoselskii fixed-point theorem for mappings compressing a cone in a Banach space.