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Common Stock - Summary of Fair Value of Warrants Issued (Detail)

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Common Stock - Summary of Fair Value of Warrants Issued (Detail)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2014
Warrant issued in October 2010 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Risk-free interest rates	0.26%	0.30%
Expected dividend yield	0.00%	0.00%
Expected life	6 months 22 days	1 year 7 months 6 days
Expected volatility	49.87%	41.00%
Series A and Series B Warrants issued in July 2014 Financing
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Risk-free interest rates	1.19%
Expected dividend yield	0.00%
Expected life	4 years 3 months
Expected volatility	63.35%

- Definition

Expected dividends to be paid to holders of the underlying shares or financial instruments (expressed as a percentage of the share or instrument's price).

+ References

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 820

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 2

-Subparagraph (e)

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