Author: Jiarui Liu
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Case CI-MET-ASTOR: The Astor Court Visitor Guide
Date: Jan 2, 2026 By: Jiarui LiuCategory: Category II: Cross-Paradigm Gap Tags: Cultural Transmission, Institutional Pedagogy, Translational Friction, Epistemological Gaps Case ID: CI-MET-ASTOR Abstract & Summary The conceptual translation of an integrated Chinese literati garden epistemology into a Western museum educational framework resulted in severe translational friction. A process-based worldview built on relational synthesis was reduced to a static checklist of symbolic parts,…
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Case CI-1983-AC143: The Air Canada “Glider” Incident
Date: Jan 14, 2026By: Jiarui LiuCategory: Category I: Commensurable Mismatch (Intra-Paradigm)Tags: Aerospace Engineering, Metrology, Infrastructure Mismatch, Silent Translation Failure Case ID: CI-1983-AC143 Abstract & Summary During Canada’s transition to the metric system, a manual unit translation error led an Air Canada Boeing 767 to depart with less than half its required fuel. The aircraft suffered dual-engine flameout at 41,000 feet…
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Introducing The Conversion Index
v1.0 — Initial Prototype The Conversion Index is a research prototype documenting failure modes in the transfer of knowledge between incompatible systems. It defines a conversion as the operational transfer of a concept, quantity, or procedure from a source system to a target system, and focuses on cases where this transfer produces measurable loss, distortion,…
