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Major Customers - Additional Information (Detail) - Customer Concentration Risk [Member] - Customer	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2014
Entity Wide Portfolio Carrying Amount, Major Customer [Line Items]
Number of customers	2	1
Customer 1 [Member]
Entity Wide Portfolio Carrying Amount, Major Customer [Line Items]
Customers accounted from total revenue	54.40%	87.20%
Customer 2 [Member]
Entity Wide Portfolio Carrying Amount, Major Customer [Line Items]
Customers accounted from total revenue	30.10%

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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