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Exploring Faculty Use of Open Educational Resources at British Columbia Post-Secondary Institutions
This research examines the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) by post-secondary faculty in British Columbia, including their motivations and perceptions, as well as what factors help to enable or act as challenges for OER use and adaptation. Although the findings provide a snapshot of the BC post- secondary system as a whole, we also explore similarities and differences in OER use among faculty across the three institution types in British Columbia: research-intensive universities, teaching-intensive universities, and colleges/institutes (see Appendix A). This research also investigates the relationships between faculty use of OER and institutional policies, the tendency to share teaching materials, and the personality trait of openness
7,7′-(3,3′-Dibenzyl-3H,3′H-4,4′-bi-1,2,3-triazole-5,5′-diyl)bis(4-methyl-2H-chromen-2-one)
The title compound, a bis-5,5′-triazole, C38H28N6O4, was observed as a side-product from the Sharpless–Meldal click reaction of the corresponding coumarin alkyne and benzylazide. Although the compound was present as a minor component, it crystallized in preference to the major product. The two triazole rings are almost orthogonal to each other [dihedral angle = 83.8 (1)°]. However the 4 and 4′ coumarin systems are close to coplanar with their respective triazole rings [23.6 (1) and 15.1 (1)°]. Each of the benzene rings packs approximately face-to-face with the opposing coumarin ring systems, with interplanar angles of 7.7 (1) and 25.3 (1)° and distances of 3.567 (2) and 3.929 (2) Å between the respective centroids of the opposing rings
Detection of Cellular Sialic Acid Content Using Nitrobenzoxadiazole Carbonyl-Reactive Chromophores
The selective ligation of hydrazine and amino-oxy compounds
with
carbonyls has gained popularity as a detection strategy with the recognition
of aniline catalysis as a way to accelerate the labeling reaction
in water. Aldehydes are a convenient functional group choice since
there are few native aldehydes found at the cell surface. Aldehydes
can be selectively introduced into sialic acid containing glycoproteins
by treatment with dilute sodium periodate. Thus, the combination of
periodate oxidation with aniline-catalyzed ligation (PAL) has become
a viable method for detection of glycoconjugates on live cells. Herein
we examine two fluorescent nitrobenzoxadiazole dyes for labeling of
glycoproteins and cell surface glycoconjugates. We introduce a novel
4-aminooxy-7-nitro-benz-[2,1,3-<i>d</i>]-oxadiazole (NBDAO)
(<b>5</b>) fluorophore, and offer a comparison to commercial
dyes including the known 4-hydrazino-7-nitro-benz-[2,1,3-<i>d</i>]-oxadiazole (NBDH) (<b>2</b>) and Bodipy FL hydrazide. We
confirm specificity for sialic acid moieties and that both dyes are
suitable for in vitro and in vivo labeling studies using PAL and fluorescence
spectroscopy. The dyes examined here are attractive labeling agents
for microscopy, as they can be excited by a 488 nm laser line and
can be made in a few synthetic steps. These carbonyl-reactive chromophores
provide a one step alternative to avidin–biotin labeling strategies
and simplify the detection of sialic acid in cells and glycoproteins