Before revision:  Our approach embraces and extends much previous work on multistationarity, such as work in relation to chemical reaction networks with dynamics defined by mass-action or non-catalytic kinetics, and also work based on the graphical analysis of the interaction graph associated to the system. 
After revision:  Our approach embraces and extends much previous work on multistationarity, such as work in relation to chemical reaction networks with dynamics defined by mass-action or non-catalytic kinetics, and also work based on graphical analysis of the interaction graph associated to the system.