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- thermal 1
- Thermal barrier coating 1
- Thermal sensitivity, Thermal safety margin, Climate change, Tropical toad 1
- Thesawalamai, Gender Discrimination, CEDAW, Third-World Feminism, Gender Equality 1
- thickest nerve 1
- Thickness 1
- Thin coatings 2
- Thin film 1
- Thin films 4
- Thin-layer drying of some Sri Lankan paddy varieties under low humid conditions 1
- Thiol reductase activity 1
- Thioredoxin reductase 3 1
- Third World Approaches to International Law 1
- third world approaches to international law (TWAIL) 1
- Third-degree perineal tear 1
- This study attempts to explain the Sri Lankan fertility transition in terms of the pre- transition fertility regime and conditions leading to its destabilization. This study therefore deviates from previous studies of fertility in Sri Lanka which have largely focused upon the post-transitional fertility differentials. From the first formulation of demographic transition theory, education has been used as a significant factor relating to the fertility transition, but Caldwell's 'mass education-fertility transition9 thesis can be regarded as the major attempt to explain the relationship between education and the onset of the fertility transition, with education a central explanatory factor in fertility transition theory. My analysis uses existing fertility theory to explain the education-fertility transition relationship, systematically tests that theory and suggests some modification to the theory on the basis of the Sri Lankan experience. The availability of relevant information in Sri Lanka has provided the opportunity to analyse the generations which contributed to the onset of the fertility transition and the continuance of that transition 1
- Thoracic outlet syndrome 1
- Thoracic outlet syndrome; subclavian stenosis; arterial insufficiency 1
- Thoracodorsal pedicle, Lateral thoracic vein, Anatomical landmark, Axillary clearance 1
- threatened species 1