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Revenue (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Revenue |
Schedule of amounts recorded in accrued liabilities |
|  | March 31, |  | December 31,
|  | 2018 |  | 2017
Contract liabilities |  | $ | (1,061) |  | $ | (924)
Revenue recognized in the three months period ended from: |  |  |  |  |  |
Amounts included in contract liabilities at the beginning of the period |  | $ | 643 |  | $ | 563

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