“…Time delays are usually encountered in various fields of science and engineering, especially in biological modeling, economics, thermal systems and many others (see [2,11,15,19,22]). While general linear systems tend to be sensitive to time delays and consequently become oscillatory or even unstable, it has been shown that for linear positive systems with constant delays or bounded time-varying delays, the asymptotic stability is not related to the magnitudes of delays but only depends on the system matrices [7,9,13,14,20].…”