Abstract: A computer implemented system and method for conducting and disseminating financial research products and services among users in an investment community includes a social network module configured to store electronic user files for each of the users, and to generate a network user interface configured to enable communication among the users via the users' client computers in real time and/or asynchronously. A forum module stores and displays selected media including selections of the communication among the users. A virtual auction module enables users to generate proposals for desired financial research products or services, view the proposals, bid on the proposals, and collaborate on the proposals, in real-time and/or asynchronously. A dashboard module is configured to generate an electronic dashboard configured to track and selectively display status of the electronic user files, including enabling users to selectively access the social network, forum and virtual auction modules in real-time.

Abstract: A method for the production of gaseous sulphur from sulphur dioxide by means of a thermally balanced mixture which comprises a mixture of sulphur dioxide with air or oxygen and a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon, the proportions of the components of such a mixture being so adjusted as to conform to the conditions that the gaseous reaction products from such a mixture shall have a minimum temperature determined by the liquidus temperature of the melt into which such reaction products are to be injected or the liquidus temperature of the products of reaction between the components of the melt and the injected gaseous reaction products, whichever is the greater, and that the partial pressure of oxygen in such gaseous reaction products is in accord with the desired composition of the melt.