Pulmonary contusions are commonly associated with flail chest and that can lead to respiratory failure. This is due to the paradoxical motions of the chest wall from the fragments interrupting normal breathing and chest movement.
In computer architecture, a bus (a contraction of the Latin omnibus) is a communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers. This expression covers all related hardware components (wire, optical fiber, etc.) and software, including communication protocols.
A serial bus can be defined as a transmission path over which the participants transmit their data serially (i.e. bit after bit), sequentially in time and using a common medium. In contrast, in parallel bus systems the individual bits which form a character are transmitted simultaneously by a certain number of data lines.