However, this success at explaining natural phenomena came to be tested from an unexpected direction the behaviour of light, whose intangible nature had puzzled philosophers and scientists for centuries.
Olympus is the only Nikkei 225 constituent whose intangible assets – principally goodwill of around ¥168 billion – exceeds net assets (¥151 billion).
An effect on CO2 reducing innovations is found for the externalisation of tangible activities only, as opposed to intangibles, whose outsourcing even decreases them.
Others (n = 16) talked about the donor as an 'absence' and described him as (i) a figure about whom little or nothing was known (the 'unknown'), (ii) donor sperm, rather than a sperm donor ('part of a process'), and a person whose contribution was intangible ('out of sight, out of mind').
1948 Tokyo, Japan Hiroshi Sugimoto, Japanese form Sugimoto Hiroshi (born 1948, Tokyo, Japan), Japanese photographer whose realistic images of intangible or impossible phenomena challenged the understanding of photography as an "objective" art form.
The problem for the Salinger estate may be closer to what happens to people whose patents or other intangible property have zero value at death but a far higher value in the years to come.
Yahoo, for instance, is shifting a European hub to Ireland, which offers, among other attractions, a corporate tax rate of just 12.5% and juicy tax-arbitrage opportunities for firms with lots of intangible assets whose value can be shuffled between jurisdictions.
Coastal dunes are transitional systems which offer manifold ecosystem services, including material and intangible benefits, whose relevance for human society has been little investigated to date.
Furthermore, they can be quite complex and difficult to measure accurately; some can address the same point from different angles and some may deal with intangible assets whose direct relation to outcome can be hard to demonstrate.
This situation is also partly due to the fact that few implementation methodologies can meet the requirement of the difficult problem-solving process, since this problem-solving process involves an analysis of interdependent activities whose critical attributes include intangible elements.
