A flow regulator having a regulator housing which is provided with a control device having a central body in a passage channel. The signs are removably attached to a sleeve that surrounds a portion of a pole and rests upon a sign support. Each transport receptacle includes two side supports, each of which are mounted on one of the supports. Such compounds have particular application in the treatment of protein aging such as is responsible for the complications of aging and diabetes. Thereafter, the model is compared with the terminal section and the set of signal parameters including the time offset estimates is refined to minimize the difference between the model and the terminal section. The method and apparatus can generate error correcting codes having a good minimum distance characteristic, and which can achieve soft decision decoding and reduce the quantity of calculations for the decoding by using an IFHT decoder.