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Represents the exercise price per share of options to purchase common stock granted to executives in connection with a merger agreement.

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Represents the number of executives to whom the Company granted options to purchase shares of common stock in connection with a merger agreement.

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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 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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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
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Percentage of vesting of share-based compensation awards.

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