“…In order to compare the results in this paper with those in [3,29], we assume that the activation functions satisfy (A2) with c 1 = c 2 = c 3 = 0 andc 1 = 1.2,c 2 = 0.5,c 3 = 1.3. When the time-varying delay is differentiable and μ = 0.85, by using Theorem 3.1 in this paper, Theorem 1 in [29] and Theorem 1 in [3], we obtain the maximum allowable upper bound of τ (t) as h 2 = 9.7377, h = 9.6876, and h = 7.7377, respectively. When the time-varying delay may not be differentiable, that is, μ is unknown, by using Theorem 2 in [29] and Theorem 2 in [3], the maximum allowable upper bounds are h = 2.2379 and h = 2.3514, respectively.…”