A compressible mixture prepared from a waxy filler, cellulose filler, or a mixture thereof and a disintegrant is disclosed for the preparation of compressed pharmaceutical compositions containing coated pellets. A period during which a reset signal for an electronic shuttering operation is being supplied to an arbitrary pixel row overlaps with a period during which another pixel row is selected to perform a readout operation thereon. Additionally, spare states in multiple bit per cell memory devices that remain unmapped to binary data bits may be advantageously used. Furthermore, it is described a source base station and a target base station, which are adapted to carry out respectively one of the above mentioned data transferring methods. The more accurate alternate clock can be coupled to the clock path during a test mode. Such reagents and methods, which are based on short heteropeptides, may be used to decrease nonspecific adsorption in for example biosensing applications.