“…However, systems in [2,10], and [12] are asymptotically stable for 1 < d 1 (t j ) < 13, 1 < d 1 (t j ) < 20, and 1 < d 1 (t j ) < 20, respectively. Time-delay upper bounds d 1M given in [2,10,12], and Theorem 1 in this paper are compared in Table 1. Obviously, the time-delay upper bound d 1M provided in this paper is larger than the ones obtained in [2,10], and [12].…”