Share based compensation arrangement by share based payment award cliff vesting period.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Share based compensation arrangement by share based payment award vesting cancellation period.

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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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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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Period from grant date that an equity-based award expires, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Number of options vested.

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Share-Based Payment Awards - Stock Options - Additional Information (Detail) - shares	1 Months Ended	2 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
	Jan. 31, 2019	Mar. 31, 2021	Mar. 31, 2021
2016 Long Term Incentive Plan [Member]
Class Of Stock [Line Items]
Ratable monthly vesting period	4 years
Ceased ratable monthly vesting period		4 years
Contractual life of option grants	10 years
Stock Compensation Plan [Member]
Class Of Stock [Line Items]
Ratable monthly vesting period	1 year	1 year
Cliff vesting period	3 years	3 years
Common stock vested during the period			72,453
Newly Appointed Non Executive Director [Member]
Class Of Stock [Line Items]
Ratable annual vesting period	3 years
External consultant [Member]
Class Of Stock [Line Items]
Cliff vesting period	1 year