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The problem of oscillatory behavior of solutions of the second-order nonlinear differential equation \([r(t)\phi(y(t))| y'(t)| ^{\alpha-1}y'(t)]'+q(t)f(y(t)) =0\) is investigated, where \(r, q:[t_0, \infty) \to \mathbb{R}\), \(\phi, f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}\) are continuous, \(\alpha>0\) is a constant, \(r(t)>0\) and \(\phi(y)>0\), \(yf(y)>0\) for \(y \neq 0\). It is supposed, that the functions \(f (y) \) and \( \phi (y) \) satisfy the inequality \[ \frac{f'(y)}{(\phi(y)| f(y)| ^{\alpha-1})^{1/\alpha}} \geq K>0, \quad y \neq 0. \] First, a brief review of basic results of other authors on the problem of oscillatory solutions is given. The approach to a solution of this problem based on interval oscillation criteria. Such a criterion is based on the behavior of \(r\), \(q\), \(\phi\), \(f\) and \(\alpha\) only on a sequence of subintervals of \([t_0,\infty)\). In the second part, by using averaging functions and an inequality due to Hardy, Littlewood and Polya, interval criteria for oscillations are established. In the third part, examples are considered illustrating the application of oscillation theorems from the second part.