Income Taxes - Schedule of Earnings (Loss) before Income Taxes and Income Tax Expense (Benefit) (Parenthetical) (Detail)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]
Individual foreign jurisdiction income threshold	5.00%

Individually, none of the foreign jurisdictions included in "Other jurisdictions" had more than this percentage threshold of consolidated earnings (loss) before taxes.

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