Schedule of Estimated Fair Value Assumption of 2017 Notes (Detail) - Convertible 2017 Notes - $ / shares	3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Stock price	$ 1.14	$ 3.40
Conversion Rate per $1,000	2.90	2.90
Conversion Price	$ 344.83	$ 344.83
Maturity date	Jun. 23, 2017	Mar. 15, 2017
Risk-free interest rate	0.76%	0.49%
Estimated stock volatility	100.00%	80.00%
Estimated credit spread	20.00%	20.00%

Conversion price.

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Debt instrument convertible conversion ratio per one thousand dollars principal amount.

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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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Date when the debt instrument is scheduled to be fully repaid, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
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-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.22(a)(2))
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Measure of dispersion, in percentage terms (for instance, the standard deviation or variance), for a given stock price.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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Risk-free interest rate assumption used in valuing an instrument.

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Risk associated with risk of default, credit spread risk and downgrade risk, expressed as a percentage, used as an input to measure fair value.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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