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Revenue (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2018
Revenue |
Schedule of amounts recorded in accrued liabilities |
|  | September 30, |  | June 30 |  | December 31,
|  | 2018 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Contract liabilities |  | $ | (648) |  | $ | (927) |  | $ | (924)
Revenue recognized in the nine and three months period ended as of September 30, 2018 from: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Amounts included in contract liabilities at the beginning of the period |  | $ | 776 |  | $ | 425 |  | Not Applicable

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