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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-interdisciplinary-mathematics</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-012X</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0502</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JIM-1486</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>A note on the Lyapunov functions for SIR and SIRS epidemic model</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Mohamadhasani</surname>
            <given-names>Mahboobeh</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, Bandarabbas, University of Hormozgan, P. O. Box 3995, Iran</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>26</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>285</fpage>
      <lpage>288</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>O’Regan et al [Journal of Applied Mathematics Letters. 23 (2010) , pp. 446-448] constructed a function as a Lyapunov function for getting stability of endemic equilibrium of a mathematical model for an epidemic. In this paper, we prove the introduced function does not satisfy some of the conditions of Lyapunov function. At last, we correct the introduced function which can help us to reach the aims in stability.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Direct Lyapunov method</kwd>
        <kwd>Lyapunov function</kwd>
        <kwd>Global stability</kwd>
        <kwd>Epidemiology</kwd>
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