“…Since |x(t)| ≤ s(t) holds for all t ≥ 0, and since the values x(t) do not depend on δ(ℓ) values for times ℓ ≥ t, we can substitute (33) into (30) and then use the fact that β 0 (a + b, t) ≤ β 0 (2a, t) + β 0 (2b, 0) holds for all a ≥ 0, b ≥ 0 and t ≥ 0, to satisfy the ISS requirement with β(r, t) = β 0 (2(3 + 2h)c 3 r, t) and γ(s) = γ 0 (s) + β 0 (2c 3 s, 0). Remark 2: In terms of diagonal matrices D whose main diagonal entries are all positive, matrices P > 0, constants h > 0 and τ > 0, and a constant c 0 ∈ (0, 1) and U 0 ∈ [1, +∞) n such that M 0 U 0 = c 0 U 0 where M 0 = e −Dh + 0 −h e Dℓ dℓP , the β 0 from [6, Theorem 1] and [6, Remark 1] is β 0 (r, t) = n||U 0 ||e (t−h) ln(c 0 )/(τ +h) r. The existence of c 0 and U 0 follows because M 0 > 0 is Schur stable [6]. This and the last part of the proof of Theorem 1 ensure the exponential stability condition from Remark 1.…”