Discount rate of share-based compensation awards.

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Sharebased compensation arrangement by sharebased payment award fair value assumptions fair value.

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Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based compensation awards.

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Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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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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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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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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Number of options or other stock instruments for which the right to exercise has lapsed under the terms of the plan agreements.

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Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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Weighted average price at which grantees could have acquired the underlying shares with respect to stock options of the plan that expired.

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Weighted average per share amount at which grantees can acquire shares of common stock by exercise of options.

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Percentage of vesting of share-based compensation awards.

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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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Expected term of share-based compensation awards, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT (Narrative) (Options) (Details) - USD ($)		1 Months Ended										12 Months Ended
	Jul. 02, 2016	Dec. 31, 2016	Nov. 30, 2016	Oct. 24, 2016	Apr. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015	Jul. 31, 2015	Jun. 30, 2015	May 30, 2015	Jan. 23, 2015	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Jul. 31, 2016
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Unrecognized compensation expense		$ 198,542										$ 198,542
Options expired, number													250,000
Options expired, exercise price													$ 1.22
Employee Options and Stock Appreciation Rights [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Options granted, number												301,000	367,500
Options granted, exercise price												$ 0.22	$ 0.41
Options expired, number												257,500
Options expired, exercise price												$ 1.88
Employee Options and Stock Appreciation Rights [Member] \| Employees [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Options granted, term		5 years				5 years				5 years
Options granted, number		251,000				300,000				62,500
Options granted, exercise price		$ 0.22				$ 0.34				$ 0.70
Vesting period		3 years				3 years
Fair value of options		$ 38,092				$ 70,258				$ 24,590
Volatility		99.29%				99.26%				97.15%
Expected term		4 years				4 years				2 years 6 months
Discount rate		1.67%				1.53%				0.82%
Employee Options and Stock Appreciation Rights [Member] \| Employees [Member] \| Vesting Immediately [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of shares immediately vested		25.00%				25.00%
Employee Options and Stock Appreciation Rights [Member] \| Employees [Member] \| Vesting Over Three Years [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Percentage of shares immediately vested		25.00%				25.00%
Employee Options and Stock Appreciation Rights [Member] \| New Employee [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Options granted, term		5 years	5 years				5 years
Options granted, number		25,000	25,000				5,000
Options granted, exercise price		$ 0.23	$ 0.26				$ 0.64
Vesting period		1 year	1 year				1 year
Fair value of options		$ 3,556	$ 4,119				$ 1,913
Volatility		99.28%	102.80%				95.65%
Expected term		3 years	3 years				3 years
Discount rate		1.44%	1.27%				0.88%
Employee Options and Stock Appreciation Rights [Member] \| Chief Executive Officer [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Options granted, term						5 years
Options granted, number						750,000
Options granted, exercise price						$ 1.22
Fair value of options						$ 271,118
Volatility						98.68%
Expected term						2 years 6 months
Discount rate						1.10%
Employee Options and Stock Appreciation Rights [Member] \| Audit Committee Chairman [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Options granted, term											10 years
Options granted, number											10,000
Options granted, exercise price											$ 0.27
Vesting period											3 years
Fair value of options											$ 1,974
Volatility											84.16%
Expected term											6 years 6 months
Discount rate											1.61%
Employee Options and Stock Appreciation Rights [Member] \| Director [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Options granted, term	10 years			10 years				10 years	10 years
Options granted, number	680,000			5,000				580,000	30,000
Options granted, exercise price	$ 0.37			$ 0.27				$ 0.80	$ 0.76
Vesting period				3 years				1 year	3 years
Fair value of options				$ 1,117				$ 353,553	$ 18,283
Volatility	104.37%			105.08%				98.15%	97.97%
Expected term	5 years 6 months			6 years 6 months				5 years 6 months	6 years 6 months
Discount rate	1.49%			1.42%				1.74%	2.03%
Unrecognized compensation expense, period for recognition	1 year
Unrecognized compensation expense														$ 198,236
Employee Options and Stock Appreciation Rights [Member] \| New Director [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Options granted, term					10 years
Options granted, number					30,000
Options granted, exercise price					$ 0.39
Vesting period					3 years
Volatility					103.79%
Expected term					6 years 6 months
Risk-free interest rate					1.52%
Unrecognized compensation expense					$ 9,631