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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Measures Used to Determine Share Payout

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Share Payout Measures, Operating Income, Duration of Period

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Share Payout Measures, Operating Income, Number of Periods

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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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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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