Consciousness is the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

While low-quality at first, consumer digital video increased rapidly in quality, first with the introduction of playback standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 ( adopted for use in television transmission and DVD media ), and then the introduction of the DV tape format allowing recording direct to digital data and simplifying the editing process, allowing non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) to be deployed cheaply and widely on desktop computers with no external playback / recording equipment needed.

To them the Prophet's attitude, his piety, the quality of his character constitute the truer and deeper aspect of what it means by Sunnah in Islam, rather than the external aspects alone.

* Standard deviation index, generally used to show how far a value is from the target value, often used in external quality assurance

Degradation ( from, literally — reduction ), regression — the process of deterioration of characteristics of an object with time ; moving back ; gradual decline ; decline in quality ; breakdown of matter due to the impact of external forces in conformity with the laws of nature and time.

Business schools or MBA programs may be accredited by external bodies which provide students and employers with an independent view of their quality, and indicate that the school's educational curriculum meets specific quality standards.

The thermal efficiency is lower in the indirect type of external combustion ; however, the turbine blades are not subjected to combustion products and much lower quality ( and therefore cheaper ) fuels are able to be used.

Therefore, thermal conductance depends on the external dimensions of the crystal and the quality of the surface.

In I, Robot, by the end of the book, there are " Machines ", brains of power sufficient to calculate human actions and give recommendation on global scale, and a humanoid robot is stated to be indistinguishable from a human being by any external examination, even by a high quality robopsychologist.

But when it comes to writing, any distinctions that begin with an objective and external quality like size are bound to be misleading.

The Deputy Vice-Chancellors and Pro-Vice-Chancellors are responsible for academic operations, research policy, research management, quality assurance and external relations including sponsorship.

For example, a study of microcredit institutions in Bolivia in 2003, for example, found that they were very slow to deliver quality microsavings services because of easy access to cheaper forms of external capital.

Alternatively, consumers may show change in attitude such as reevaluate price in relation to external reference prices or attribute high or low prices with quality.

The notion of an internal customer — before the introduction of which external customers were, simply, customers — was popularized by quality management writer Joseph M. Juran, who introduced it in the fourth edition of his Handbook.

It has since gained wide acceptance in the literature on total quality management and service marketing ; and the customer satisfaction of internal customers is nowadays recognized by many organizations as a precursor to, and prerequisite for, external customer satisfaction, with authors such as arguing that service organizations that design products for internal customer satisfaction are better able to satisfy the needs of external customers.

The durability and quality of the timber, as well as the ability to produce its own nails, fits the paradigm of self-sustaining agriculture that requires fewer external inputs / resources.

The most sophisticated audio interfaces are external units of professional studio quality which can cost thousands of dollars.

The academic quality of the institution made great improvements towards the end of the 20th century as more members of the faculty, in rapidly escalating numbers, pursued teaching innovations, original scholarship and research, and external grants and funding.

However, as the quality of the built-in speaker was not high, the instruction manual recommended obtaining external speakers.

A fossil of limited external quality was sectioned by grinding off a thin section, photographing the grind-off end and repeat the process until the whole fossil was worked through.

Search results are ranked using complex algorithms, which take into consideration the location and frequency of keywords on a Web page, along with the quality and number of external hyperlinks pointing at the Web page.

Accreditation is the formal confirmation by Ministry of Education and Science of particular Canton, Entity or District, but prescribed by the Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance of BiH which conducted the independent external quality assessment of educational institution.

Instead they promote the idea of improving levels of internal STP within a firm while encouraging groups of firms to work together to improve the quality of the automation of transaction information between themselves, either bilaterally or as a community of users ( external STP ).

The position of the point relative to the foundations on which a body lies determines its stability in response to external forces.

The external character encoding is chosen by the author of the document ( or the software the author uses to create the document ) and determines how the bytes used to store and / or transmit the document map to characters from the document character set.

The ESD determines the external parameters such as acceleration curve, temperature and pressure and only activates the weapon when these external effects occur in the correct order and must fall within specific parameters.

Ideally, the internal quality determines the external quality and

The degree of prenatal androgen effect ( virilization ) on the external genitalia in the third month of gestation is the principal known determinant of extent of closure of the fetal urethral groove, which in turn determines the location of the opening.

** Take the point of view of an external observer who looks at the way a process has been performed and determines the improvements that must be made to make it perform more effectively or efficiently.

Furthermore, unlike conventional radar, detection range is also a function of the deployment geometry, as the distance of the receiver from the transmitter determines the level of external noise against which the targets must be detected.

Employing the Schrödinger equation as its starting point, the Runge-Gross theorem shows that at any time, the density uniquely determines the external potential.

For a given interaction potential, the RG theorem shows that the external potential uniquely determines the density.

In a particularly controversial ruling, Waldenberg ruled that sex reassignment surgery for transsexuals effects a change in a person's halachic gender, and that, in his words, " The external anatomy which is visible is what determines the halakha ".

With a few exceptions, frogs use external fertilisation.

Tadpoles have cartilaginous skeletons, gills for respiration ( external gills at first, internal gills later ), lateral line systems and large tails which they use for swimming.

Other companies took advantage of the SCC's ability to use external clocks to support higher transmission speeds up to 1 Mbit / s.

In telecommunications, asynchronous communication is transmission of data without the use of an external clock signal, where data can be transmitted intermittently rather than in a steady stream .< ref >

Pure solar heaters are especially useful for laundries, swimming pools and external baths, because these can be scheduled for use on sunny days.

An amplifier is a device for increasing the power of a signal by use of an external energy source.

Modern concrete wall systems use both external insulation and thermal mass to create an energy-efficient building.

The participant countries set up common external trade policy, but in some cases they use different import quotas.

However, many common modern bus systems can be used for both ; SATA and the associated eSATA are one example of a system that would formerly be described as internal, while in certain automotive applications use the primarily external IEEE 1394 in a fashion more similar to a system bus.

Like many programming languages, Perl has mechanisms to use external libraries of code, making one file contain common routines used by several programs.

This use allows notations to be defined only in a DTD stored as an external entity and referenced only as the external subset of documents, and allows these documents to remain compatible with validating XML or SGML parsers that have no direct support for notations.

Identification of the validating DTD may be performed by the use of XML Catalogs, in order to retrieve its specified external subset.

Engines for scale-model aeroplanes use a variant of the Diesel principle but premix fuel and air via a carburation system external to the combustion chambers.

XpanD makes use of an external emitter that sends a signal to the 3D glasses to block out the wrong image from the wrong eye.

Engines of similar ( or even identical ) configuration and operation may use a supply of heat from other sources such as nuclear, solar, geothermal or exothermic reactions not involving combustion ; but are not then strictly classed as external combustion engines, but as external thermal engines.

The chemical reactions in the cell may involve the electrolyte, the electrodes or an external substance ( as in fuel cells which may use hydrogen gas as a reactant ).

USB 3G / GPRS modems use a terminal-like interface over USB 1. 1, 2. 0 and later, data formats V. 42bis, and RFC 1144 and some models have connector for external antenna.

Although he attempted to regulate his daily routine to maintain more control over his results, his decision to avoid the use of participants sacrificed the external validity of the study despite sound internal validity.

The Intel 8088, released in 1979, was a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus ( allowing the use of cheaper and fewer supporting logic chips ), and is notable as the processor used in the original IBM PC.

Electric propulsion systems use an external source such as a nuclear reactor or solar cells to generate electricity, which is then used to accelerate a chemically inert propellant to speeds far higher than achieved in a chemical rocket.

Instead of an internal power supply like the original system had, the Intellivision II would use an external AC adapter.

IP routing is performed by all hosts, but most importantly by routers, which typically use either interior gateway protocols ( IGPs ) or external gateway protocols ( EGPs ) to decide how to move datagrams among networks.