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The authors consider the following partial differential equation: \[ u_{tt}=u_{xxx}(a(x)u_{xxx})+u_ x(b(x)u_ x)-c(t,x)u-d(t,x)u_ t,\;(t,x)\in\Omega=[0,\infty)\times[0,1]\leqno(i) \] with the initial conditions \(u(0,x)=\varphi_ 0(x),\quad u_ t(0,x)=\varphi_ 1(x),\quad x\in[0,1]\) and arbitrary boundary conditions for \(x=0\) and \(x=1\). They derive an \(\mathbb{L}^ 2\)-estimate: \[ \| u\|=\sqrt{\mu_ 2/\mu_ 1} [\int_ 0^ 1[(\varphi_ 1(x))^ 2+({\partial^ 3\varphi_ 0 \over \partial x^ 3})^ 2+({\partial\varphi_ 0 \over \partial x})^ 2+\varphi^ 2_ 0]dx]^{1/2}, \] if some additional conditions are imposed on the coefficients. Also they consider the equation \[ u_{tt}+L_ 1u_ t+L_ 2u+L_ 3(t)u+g(u)=0,\quad \Omega=[0,T]\times[0,1],\quad 0<T\leq\infty, \leqno(ii) \] with initial conditions \(u(0,x)=\varphi_ 1(x)\), \(u_ t(0,x)=\varphi_ 2(x)\) and zero boundary conditions where \(L_ 1, L_ 2, L_ 3(t)\) are linear differential operators with respect to \(x\in\mathbb{R}^ 1\), and \(g(u)\) is a continuous function. By introducing the functional \[ V(t)={1 \over 4}\int_ 0^ 1(L_ 1u(t,x))^ 2 dx+\int_ 0^ 1 u(t,x)L_ 2u(t,x)dx+\int_ 0^ 1(L_ 1u/2+u_ t)^ 2 dx+\int_ 0^ 1[2\int_ 0^ u g(\eta)d\eta]dx \] they derive for all \(t>0\) an estimate \(V(t)\leq V(0)\exp\int_ 0^ 1 N(\tau)d\tau\), where \(N(t)\) satisfies the following condition: \(\int_ 0^ 1(L_ 3u)^ 2 dx\leq N(t)\int_ 0^ 1 uL_ 2 u dx\). The results obtained are used for studying the stability of the trivial solutions of (i)-(ii).