“…Hence, in Section 3 we are able to apply our result not only to the most famous examples of equation (1.2) with variable delay, but also for the case of distributed or multiple delays, improving the results in [3,4,6,10,11,12,16]. For the reader's convenience, we state the main result in Section 2, and we prove it in Section 4, just after the section containing the applications.…”