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The contractual life of awards in a share-based payment arrangement, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

No definition available.

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The number of key performance factor multipliers that are used to determine the number of awards in share-based arrangement.

No definition available.

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The number of trading days after publication of the results considered in determining the arithmetic mean of the closing prices of the share. The amount is used to divide grant amount to determine the number of virtual shares.

No definition available.

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The number of type of shares awarded in share-based payment arrangement.

No definition available.

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The percentage of the award type comprising the grant in a share-based arrangement.

No definition available.

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Represents the percentage of numerical target.

No definition available.

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The performance factor of awards when the entity's share price performance matches its peer group index in share-based payment arrangement.

No definition available.

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Represents the period of performance.

No definition available.

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