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Share-Based Payments - Summary of Share Based Payment Performance Condition (Parenthetical) (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2017
Absolute TSR [Member]
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Compounded annual growth rate index trading days	60 trading days

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Compounded annual growth rate index trading days.

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Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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