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The contributions to this collection belong to the vast field of narrative ethics, with a focus on narrative literature and the processes of self-narration. The first section looks at the current scholarly field of narrative ethics in theology and at theological approaches to literary texts. The focus of the second section of the collection is on the negotiations of identity in autobiographical texts. There is a particular emphasis on exemplary sources from antiquity and from the time of the 19th and 20th centuries. The last two chapters of the collection inquire into the meaning of self-narration in the realm of mental suffering and addictive illness.

Corporate Entrepreneurship is increasingly seen as a pathway to make existing competitive advantage more sustainable. However, currently practice and research lack an understanding of the individual cognitions, attitudes, beliefs, motivations and behaviors that are drivers for entrepreneurial processes in established organizations. Hence, the overall aim of the dissertation is to develop this understanding of the behavioral micro-foundations of corporate entrepreneurship by examining the essential causes and effects of corporate effectuation and causation in a way that allows deriving theoretical as well as managerial implications.

Religionskritik wird gerade in der jüngeren Vergangenheit bevorzugt als Kritik an der vermeintlichen Irrationalität religiösen Glaubens artikuliert. Die Autoren der im vorliegenden Konferenzband versammelten Beiträge fragen zunächst anhand exemplarischer Studien zu Hamann, Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche und Rudolf Otto nach der Bedeutung und Funktion des Irrationalen in rezeptionsgeschichtlich maßgeblichen religionsphilosophischen Entwürfen der (Nach-)Aufklärung. Ergänzt und zugespitzt wird der historische Abschnitt des Bandes durch Analysen zu Werk und Wirkung Søren Kierkegaards, dem neuzeitlichen Irrationalitätstheoretiker par excellence. Darüber hinaus wird aus systematischer Perspektive nach der kritischen und/oder konstruktiven Funktion des Irrationalitätsthemas für Religionsphilosophie und Theologie gefragt, wobei nicht nur semantische, sondern auch fundamentaltheologische und ethische Aspekte Berücksichtigung finden.

Improving ambulance response times in low-income countries is the focus of this research, highlighting the importance of dispatcher training in emergency medical services (EMS). The study, centered on the Osh Ambulance Service in Kyrgyzstan, reveals that low-cost training can significantly enhance response efficiency, reducing average times from 23.18 to 20.15 minutes. Although these changes show statistical significance, their clinical impact remains uncertain. The thesis advocates for continued research into EMS in developing nations, emphasizing the potential role of healthcare professionals in these improvements.

This work focuses on developing new methods for self-calibration of a rigid stereo camera system, with broader implications for robot hand-eye calibration across various applications. Stereo self-calibration computes intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of a stereo rig without prior knowledge of the rig's movement or the scene's geometry. The resulting stereo parameters—rotation and translation between the left and right cameras—enable the creation of depth maps, essential for accurately rendering virtual objects in real scenes (Augmented Reality). The methods were evaluated against real and synthetic data and compared with existing algorithms. Additionally, an optical tracking system with a camera mounted on an endoscope was calibrated without a pattern using the proposed extended hand-eye calibration algorithm. The self-calibration methods are practical, relying solely on temporal feature tracking, which simplifies the process compared to left-to-right tracking with unknown parameters. They compute intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters during self-calibration, eliminating the need for calibration patterns. The approach also extends to hand-eye calibration using structure-from-motion. A key challenge in hand-eye calibration is the necessity for general camera movements to compute rigid transformations; insufficient motion results in incomplete parameters for depth map computation. This work addresses data selection methods