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The quandary of quantification: data, numbers and teachers' learning by Hardy, Ian

“…Drawing upon recent theorising of numbers and data, and applications to schooling, this paper reveals how tensions between more accountability-oriented logics,…”
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A logic of appropriation: enacting national testing (NAPLAN) in Australia by Hardy, Ian

“…This paper explores how the strong policy push to improve students' results on national literacy and numeracy tests - the National Assessment Program, Literacy…”
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Field evaluation of synthetic and neem-derived alternative insecticides in developing action thresholds against cauliflower pests by Shah, Farhan Mahmood, Razaq, Muhammad, Ali, Qasim, Shad, Sarfraz Ali, Aslam, Muhammad, Hardy, Ian C. W.

“…Synthetic chemical pesticides can enhance crop yields but also have undesired effects. Alternative ‘botanical insecticides’ may also have non-target effects on…”
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The evolutionarily stable strategy, animal contests, parasitoids, pest control and sociality by Hardy, Ian C W, Mesterton-Gibbons, Mike

“…The evolutionarily stable strategy, ESS, concept was first used in biology to understand sex ratio bias and, shortly afterwards, to explore the logic of…”
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Dynamic Economic Thresholds for Insecticide Applications Against Agricultural Pests: Importance of Pest and Natural Enemy Migration by Keasar, Tamar, Wajnberg, Eric, Heimpel, George, Hardy, Ian C.W., Harpaz, Liora Shaltiel, Gottlieb, Daphna, van Nouhuys, Saskya

“…In Integrated Pest Management programs, insecticides are applied to agricultural crops when pest densities exceed a predetermined economic threshold. Under…”
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Escaping the evolutionary trap: Can size-related contest advantage compensate for juvenile mortality disadvantage when parasitoids develop in unnatural invasive hosts? by Mesterton-Gibbons, Mike, Cusumano, Antonino, Hardy, Ian C.W.

“…•The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug is a major invasive agro-economic pest.•Its eggs are seen as an evolutionary trap for native parasitoids, but some…”
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Does the lack of heritability of human sex ratios require a rethink of sex ratio theory? No: a Comment on Zietsch et al . 2020 by Orzack, Steven Hecht, Hardy, Ian C W

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Adjustment of sex allocation to co‐foundress number and kinship under local mate competition: An inclusive‐fitness analysis by Gardner, Andy, Hardy, Ian C. W.

“…Hamilton's theory of local mate competition (LMC) describes how competition between male relatives for mating opportunities favours a female‐biased parental…”
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Defection on the bounty? Kinship and cooperative exploitation of a rich, essential but dangerous resource by Mesterton-Gibbons, Mike, Hardy, Ian C.W.

“…We develop a game-theoretic model to explore the question of whether two animals should cooperate in the dangerous activity of obtaining a rich and essential…”
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Conspicuous by their absence: extremely rare field parasitism by Trichogramma wasps imported to control pest butterflies in a pomegranate agro-ecosystem by Al-Riyami, Abdulhamid, Hardy, Ian C. W.

“…Biological pest control programmes often involve the importation of exotic natural enemies, ideally followed by monitoring to discern the establishment and…”
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Thiamethoxam exposure deregulates short ORF gene expression in the honey bee and compromises immune response to bacteria by Decio, Pâmela, Ustaoglu, Pinar, Derecka, Kamila, Hardy, Ian C. W., Roat, Thaisa C., Malaspina, Osmar, Mongan, Nigel, Stöger, Reinhard, Soller, Matthias

“…Maximizing crop yields relies on the use of agrochemicals to control insect pests. One of the most widely used classes of insecticides are neonicotinoids that…”
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importance of alternative host plants as reservoirs of the cotton leaf hopper, Amrasca devastans, and its natural enemies by Saeed, Rabia, Razaq, Muhammad, Hardy, Ian C. W

“…Many agricultural pests can be harboured by alternative host plants but these can also harbour the pests’ natural enemies. We evaluated the capacity of…”
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The micro-politics of cultural change: a Chinese doctoral student's learning journey in Australia by Dai, Kun, Hardy, Ian

“…Considerable research has investigated Chinese students' intercultural insights in different national contexts, where culture is understood as coterminous with…”
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Mutually beneficial host exploitation and ultra-biased sex ratios in quasisocial parasitoids by Tang, Xiuyun, Meng, Ling, Kapranas, Apostolos, Xu, Fuyuan, Hardy, Ian C.W., Li, Baoping

“…Selfish interests usually preclude resource sharing, but under some conditions collective actions enhance per capita gains. Such Allee effects underlay early…”
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Switch-mediated activation and retargeting of CAR-T cells for B-cell malignancies by Rodgers, David T., Mazagova, Magdalena, Hampton, Eric N., Cao, Yu, Ramadoss, Nitya S., Hardy, Ian R., Schulman, Andrew, Du, Juanjuan, Wang, Feng, Singer, Oded, Ma, Jennifer, Nunez, Vanessa, Shen, Jiayin, Woods, Ashley K., Wright, Timothy M., Schultz, Peter G., Kim, Chan Hyuk, Young, Travis S.

“…Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy has produced impressive results in clinical trials for B-cell malignancies. However, safety concerns related…”
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Effects of assisted reproductive technologies on human sex ratio at birth by Maalouf, Walid E., Ph.D, Mincheva, Mina N., M.Med.Sc, Campbell, Bruce K., D.Sc, Hardy, Ian C.W., Ph.D

“…Objective To investigate the effect of assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments on the sex ratio of babies born. Design Assessment of direct effects…”
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Co‐foundress confinement elicits kinship effects in a naturally sub‐social parasitoid by Abdi, Mohamed Khadar, Lupi, Daniela, Hardy, Ian C. W.

“…Kinship among interacting individuals is often associated with sociality and also with sex ratio effects. Parasitoids in the bethylid genus Goniozus are…”
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Equity and opacity in enacting Chinese higher education policy: contrasting perspectives of domestic and international students by Dai, Kun, Hardy, Ian

“…Drawing upon notions of a global higher education policy field and recently theorised conceptions of 'global-local' imbrications in social space, this article…”
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How many cooperators are too many? Foundress number, reproduction and sex ratio in a quasi‐social parasitoid by Malabusini, Serena, Hardy, Ian C. W., Jucker, Costanza, Savoldelli, Sara, Lupi, Daniela

“…In the parasitoid genus Sclerodermus, multiple foundresses produce and care for communal broods on large hosts, which can lead to greater reproductive success…”
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Reproductive performance effects of rearing the quasi-social parasitoid, Sclerodermus brevicornis (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae), on a factitious host by Malabusini, Serena, Hardy, Ian C W, Jucker, Costanza, Guanzani, Greta, Savoldelli, Sara, Lupi, Daniela

“…Abstract Wasps in the genus Sclerodermus are ectoparasitoids that typically attack the larvae of woodboring coleopterans. Interest in these species is…”
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