Fair Value Assumptions Used in Accounting for Derivative Additional Investment Rights Liability - Derivative Liabilities (Details 2) - $ / shares	12 Months Ended
Jul. 31, 2016	Jul. 31, 2015
Current exercise price of warrants	$ 0.015	$ 0.015
Time to expiration	2 years 1 month	2 years 6 months
Risk-free interest rate	0.76%	1.08%
Estimated volatility	101.00%	82.00%
Dividend	0.00%	0.00%
Stock price	$ .001	$ 0.010
Additional Investment Rights
Underlying number of units of convertible preferred stock	500	500
Underlying number of warrants	33,333,333	33,333,333
Current exercise price of warrants	$ 0.015	$ 0.015
Current conversion price of preferred stock	$ 0.015	$ 0.015
Time to expiration	18 days	1 year 18 days
Risk-free interest rate	0.38%	0.30%
Estimated volatility	13.00%	79.00%
Dividend	0.00%	0.00%
Stock price	$ 0.008	$ 0.010

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Warrants Issuable

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The number of shares converted in a noncash (or part noncash) transaction. Noncash is defined as transactions during a period that do not result in cash receipts or cash payments in the period. "Part noncash" refers to that portion of the transaction not resulting in cash receipts or cash payments in the period.

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Agreed upon price for the exchange of the underlying asset.

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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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