One US-American study estimates societal costs related to reported cases of child abuse and neglect at USD 103.8 billion per year – without taking intangible costs into consideration [ 54].
The proposed model which takes the intangible value into consideration might be a first step towards a synthesis of aspired goals defined by health-care practitioners and methods contributed by economists.
A general Return on Investment (ROI) model has also been developed here taking into consideration various intangible impacts of Cloud Computing, apart from the cost.
Torture could even represent much higher costs, should intangible costs related to chronic pain be taken into consideration (which we did not consider in our study).
In addition to the direct and indirect costs, consideration also needs to be given to the intangible costs incurred by patients.
Careful consideration is given to failure consequences, both tangible and intangible, and reliabilities of intact as well as damaged structures are considered.
Evaluation of the economic impact of the disease requires consideration of three broad categories of costs: direct, indirect, and intangible costs (Leung et al. 2003; Table 13).
If the technology is not used, or under-used, or mis-used, then many of the tangible and intangible benefits of PACSs [ 1, 2, 4, 5] relating to organizational efficiency, financial considerations, and improved patient care may not be fully realized.
The major consideration on designing leadership development program is to deal with many intangible factors, as well as dependent relationship among experiences and leadership competencies.
Material selection for an engineering design can be viewed as a complicated multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem which requires consideration of a number of available materials and conflicting tangible and intangible selection criteria.
