In this paper we study the existence and uniqueness of positive solutions of boundary vlue problems for continuous semilinear perturbations, say f: [0, 1) × (0, ∞) → (0, ∞), of class of quasilinear operators which represent, for instance, the radial form of the Dirichlet problem on the unit ball of RN for the operators: p-Laplacian (1 < p < ∞) ad k-Hessian (1 ≤ k ≤ N). As a key feature, f (r, u) is possibly singular at r = 1 or u =0, Our approach exploits fixed point arguments and the Shooting Method.
