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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)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=36462937&loc=d3e19207-110258

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Convertible Promissory Notes and Other Notes Payable (Details 2) - $ / shares					1 Months Ended	2 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Mar. 25, 2016	Dec. 11, 2015	Nov. 23, 2015	Sep. 02, 2015	Jan. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2016	Mar. 31, 2016	Nov. 11, 2015
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)						$ 8.75	$ 8.75
Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)	$ 8.00	$ 5.00	$ 6.75	$ 9.11	$ 8.00			$ 6.50
Exercise price per share	$ 8.00	$ 7.00	$ 7.00	$ 9.25	$ 10.00
Risk-free interest rate	1.39%	1.16%	1.70%	1.52%
Contractual term in years	5 years	3 years	5 years	5 years
Volatility	78.96%	77.88%	77.95%	77.20%
Dividend rate	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Weighted Average Fair Value per share	$ 5.08	$ 2.12	$ 4.22	$ 5.68
Warrant [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Assumption:
Contractual term in years					5 years
Warrant [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Assumption:
Contractual term in years					1 year
Pre-Modification [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)						8.25	8.25
Exercise price per share						$ 12.99	12.99
Risk-free interest rate						0.28%
Contractual term in years						1 month 24 days
Volatility						91.20%
Dividend rate						0.00%
Weighted Average Fair Value per share						$ 0.30	0.30
Pre-Modification [Member] \| Cato Notes [Member] \| Cato Holding Co & Cato Research Ltd [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)						10.00	$ 10.00
Risk-free interest rate							0.87%
Contractual term in years							2 years 3 months 22 days
Volatility							73.90%
Dividend rate							0.00%
Pre-Modification [Member] \| Cato Notes [Member] \| Cato Holding Co & Cato Research Ltd [Member] \| Warrant [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Assumption:
Exercise price per share						30.00	$ 30.00
Weighted Average Fair Value per share						2.44	2.44
Pre-Modification [Member] \| Cato Notes [Member] \| Cato Holding Co & Cato Research Ltd [Member] \| Warrant [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Assumption:
Exercise price per share						20.00	20.00
Weighted Average Fair Value per share						1.57	1.57
Post-Modification [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)						8.25	8.25
Exercise price per share						$ 12.99	12.99
Risk-free interest rate						0.36%
Contractual term in years						4 months 24 days
Volatility						91.20%
Dividend rate						0.00%
Weighted Average Fair Value per share						$ 0.80	0.80
Post-Modification [Member] \| Cato Notes [Member] \| Cato Holding Co & Cato Research Ltd [Member] \| Warrant [Member]
Assumption:
Market Price (in dollars per share)						10.00	10.00
Exercise price per share						7.00	$ 7.00
Risk-free interest rate							0.87%
Contractual term in years							2 years 3 months 22 days
Volatility							73.90%
Dividend rate							0.00%
Weighted Average Fair Value per share						$ 5.33	$ 5.33