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  • initialism computing Peripheral Component Interconnect: a type of expansion slot on a motherboard.

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Examples

  • Busses such as device:pci will usually also define a device type that matches any device on such a bus, to support generic operations; all children of a device:pci, regardless of their primary type, will also be a device:pci-device, which then has words to query the PCI configuration of the device.

    Snell-Pym » HYDROGEN: Device drivers 2009

  • PCI is a set of data handling rules established by Visa and MasterCard to help organizations protect cardholder information.

    Survey: Companies struggle to protect credit card data 2009

  • But Heartland Payment Systems was in PCI compliance when it broke TJX's record, losing 130 million payment card records over a period of 13 months to the same hacking group.

    Survey: Companies struggle to protect credit card data 2009

  • PCI is voluntary, although merchants and financial firms that don't comply can be fined by Visa and MasterCard.

    Survey: Companies struggle to protect credit card data 2009

  • Still, PCI is having a positive impact by "bringing security to the table and forcing companies to think about data protection," says Kramer.

    Survey: Companies struggle to protect credit card data 2009

  • Ko and his colleagues compared DES - and bare-metal-stent-related outcomes in 3472 propensity-score-matched pairs of patients with off-label PCI indications and 4563 matched pairs with on-label indications.

    theHeart.org 2009

  • Ko and his colleagues compared DES - and bare-metal-stent-related outcomes in 3472 propensity-score-matched pairs of patients with off-label PCI indications and 4563 matched pairs with on-label indications.

    theHeart.org 2009

  • The fact that Heartland's systems were certified as being fully in compliance with data handling rules, called the PCI standards, raises questions about the efficacy of such standards.

    Heartland could face litigation over data breach 2009

  • While credit-card companies require all businesses that accept their cards to comply with those standards, known as PCI, they have few measures to enforce them for small businesses.

    Hackers Shift Attacks to Small Firms Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011

  • The panel voted 7 to 1 in favor of two questions that asked whether the drug should be approved for use in patients undergoing a procedure known as PCI to open blocked arteries as well as patients being managed "medically," or not expected to undergo an invasive procedure.

    AstraZeneca Anticlotting Drug Wins Support 2010

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