“…For example, non-negative and compartmental models, which consist of homogeneous interconnected compartments that exchange non-negative quantities of materials, are typical positive systems and play a key role during many processes in biology and medical science. The feature that the state variables of positive systems are limited to a cone, not the entire space makes the study of positive systems interesting and challenging (Hu et al, 2017(Hu et al, , 2019Liu et al, 2009;Qi and Gao, 2016).…”