A method and apparatus provide coarse frequency synchronization compensating for a carrier frequency deviation from an oscillator frequency in a demodulation system capable of demodulating a signal having a frame structure with at least one useful symbol and a reference symbol which is an amplitude-modulated sequence. The method includes forming a ceramic coating on the surface of the part, the coating being made by applying a liquid composition on the surface of the part, the composition containing a ceramic-precursor polymer and a factory solid filler, curing the polymer, and transforming the cured polymer into ceramic by heat treatment. Also the subject of this invention are methods of treating conditions or diseases in which WIP andor WASP DNA or protein is deficient andor defective, for example, mutated or altered, such that an individual is adversely affected. Targeted biological material is manually or automatically selected and a transfer film is placed in juxtaposition with the targeted biological material on the side of the biological material. The assembly can be used in various ways to carry out gas separation processes. Also provided are compositions prepared according to such a process.