INQUIRY | SCHOLARSHIP, RESEARCH, AND CREATIVE WORK | REVIEW 2025 11 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13) This is the core of a new special issue of Nouvelles Études Francophones, published by the University of Nebraska Press, for which the editor is Taïeb Berrada, associate professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Focused on French colonial massacres, it gathers a cohort of scholars who examine how contemporary Francophone cultural production reconstructs, reimagines, and resists historical silences. This special issue moves across continents and mediums. One article tackles the erasure of native voices in the Pacific; another examines violent memory in Caribbean contexts. Contributions also focus on Madagascar and Cameroon, whose histories are too often sidelined in broader discussions of colonial violence. Though diverse in geography, all these pieces share a common urgency—to counteract the institutional forgetfulness that colonialism so carefully engineered. Berrada contributes an article to the issue, which centers on the 1944 They also tested MALP on a body fat data set from 252 adults. Again, MALP delivered predictions that more closely matched actual values, while least squares produced smaller average errors. Kim says the choice between MALP and conventional methods should depend on research goals. If minimizing error is the priority, traditional methods remain effective. If agreement is critical, MALP is the better option. “We need to investigate further,” Kim says. “Our goal is to remove the linear part so it becomes the Maximum Agreement Predictor.” Modern Languages and Literatures Fictions of the Forgotten In the histories of French colonialism, silence often speaks louder than fact. Archives disappear. Witnesses are silenced. Testimonies are buried under decades of censorship and state-sanctioned forgetting. But in the gaps left behind, literature, film, photography, and graphic novels begin to speak, insisting that the past is not past, and that memory is a political act. values,” he says. “The issue is, how can we define the agreement of two objects in a scientifically meaningful way? One way we can conceptualize this is how close the points are aligned with a 45 degree line on a scatter plot between the predicted value and the actual values.” Pearson’s correlation coefficient is often used to measure linear relationships. However, it can indicate a strong correlation even if points align to a line at 50 or 75 degrees, Kim says. “In our case, we are specifically interested in alignment with a 45-degree line,” he says. “For that, we use a different measure, the concordance correlation coefficient, introduced by Lin in 1989. What we’ve developed is a predictor designed to maximize the concordance correlation between predicted values and actual values.” The team tested MALP with simulations and real-world data, including eye scans and body fat measurements. In one study, they applied MALP to data from an ophthalmology study comparing two types of optical coherence tomography, or OCT, devices. The results showed MALP better matched actual Stratus OCT readings than least squares, though the latter slightly reduced average error. Taeho Kim Christine Kreschollek
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