Note 6 - Fair Value Measurement and Financial Instruments (Details) - Fair Value Assumptions, Stock-based Compensation Liability (Stock-based Compensation Liability [Member], USD $)	6 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2014	Dec. 31, 2013
Stock-based Compensation Liability [Member]
Note 6 - Fair Value Measurement and Financial Instruments (Details) - Fair Value Assumptions, Stock-based Compensation Liability [Line Items]
Stock price	$ 2.24	$ 3.70
Weighted average exercise price	$ 17.53	$ 17.66
Risk-free interest rate	0.85%	1.00%
Volatility	95.37%	94.53%
Dividend yield	0.00%	0.00%
Expected life in years	2 years 339 days	3 years 153 days
Calculated fair value per stock option	$ 0.41	$ 1.17

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Agreed upon price for the exchange of the underlying asset.

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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)

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Expected dividends to be paid to holders of the underlying shares or financial instruments (expressed as a percentage of the share or instrument's price).

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Period the instrument, asset or liability is expected to be outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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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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Risk-free interest rate assumption used in valuing an instrument.

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

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