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Represents the potential increase in the number of shares available for grant under the plan as a percentage of common stock issued and outstanding.

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Number of share instruments issuable under a share-based compensation plan.

No definition available.

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Aggregate number of common shares reserved for future issuance.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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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.

No definition available.

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Number of shares issued under share-based payment arrangement.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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