Share Based Compensation Arrangement by Share Based Payment Award, Performance Period

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Represents the expense recognized during the period arising from equity-based compensation arrangements (for example, shares of stock, unit, stock options or other equity instruments) with employees, directors and certain consultants qualifying for treatment as employees.

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- Definition

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

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- Definition

Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based awards, other than options, awarded to employees as compensation.

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Performance Awards - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2018	Sep. 30, 2017	Sep. 30, 2018	Sep. 30, 2017
Deferred Compensation Arrangement with Individual, Share-based Payments [Line Items]
Unrecognized compensation expense	$ 3.0		$ 3.0
Performance Awards
Deferred Compensation Arrangement with Individual, Share-based Payments [Line Items]
Compensation expense (benefit)	1.0	$ (0.3)	1.6	$ 0.4
Unrecognized compensation expense	$ 1.6	$ 1.4	$ 1.6	$ 1.4
2014 Equity Incentive Plan \| Performance Awards
Deferred Compensation Arrangement with Individual, Share-based Payments [Line Items]
Performance period			3 years