The issue of fixed anchors in wilderness challenges modern interpretations of the Wilderness Act. The Wilderness Act can be interpreted to allow or preclude the placement of fixed anchors in designated wilderness areas depending on whether the interpreter chooses a literal or general interpretation of the law's meaning. Place-based management options, supported by descriptive and evaluative study results, may be more closely aligned to Wilderness Act directives than nationwide, blanket policy. This research is focused on understanding the role of fixed anchors in designated wilderness in order to develop management options that protect wilderness values without hindering wilderness users. The unique nature of each wilderness area and climbing resource, in combination with distinct preferences and motivations of different climber populations, lends itself to managing fixed anchors through place-based policy that considers the landscape and the preferences of individual visitors.Joshua Tree National Park [JTNP] was chosen as the location for this case study because it has committed to establishing fixed anchor management that accommodates rock climbing and protects wilderness resources. JTNP has prohibited the placement of fixed anchors in wilderness since February 1993. By combining resource inventories, spatial modeling, and wilderness climber profiles, study results reveal that wilderness visitor destination choice is not dependent on the location of fixed anchors, but the quality, difficulty, and distance to destinations. These results can be used as the basis for a wilderness fixed anchor permit system and demonstrate that fixed anchors can fit within the confines of the Wilderness Act. Place-based management options, relative to national policies, can minimize administrative burdens and limit the geographic extent of unintended regulatory effects. The Wilderness Act's minimum administrative requirement mandate promotes this type of management style. This study of the benign fixed anchor at JTNP illustrates the power of the scientific method to neutralize wilderness recreation conflict and support streamlined wilderness management, while at the same time highlighting the shortcomings, and strengths, of the Wilderness Act as it is applied to a new era of wilderness recreation management.

La première cause de handicap neurologique chez l’adulte en France est l’accident vasculaire cérébral (AVC). L’AVC est la principale cause de l’hémiplégie et peut conduire à des séquelles lourdes telles que des difficultés à se lever et s’asseoir. A ce jour, il n’existe pas de dispositif d’aide au passage assis-debout (PAD)/debout-assis (PDA) permettant le déplacement en position debout adapté aux sujets hémiplégiques.La conception de ce type de dispositif est l’objectif du projet VHIPOD. L’absence d’études sur le PAD/PDA avec aide des sujets hémiplégiques invite à explorer deux types d’aides : ancrage fixe et ancrage mobile. Une première campagne d’expérimentation a permis de mesurer le PAD/PDA de 18 sujets sains et 11 sujets hémiplégiques droits dans différentes conditions : avec/sans ancrage fixe, avec/sans écharpe d’immobilisation et pour différentes positions de l’ancrage fixe. Ce travail a permis de montrer la contribution d’un ancrage fixe sur le PAD/PDA (ex. réduction des moments articulaires aux genoux) et de montrer que la position de l’ancrage fixe influence le PAD/PDA (ex. une position du côté gauche/sain augmente l’appui sur le membre inférieur gauche). Une deuxième campagne d’expérimentation a permis de mesurer le PAD/PDA avec ancrage mobile de 7 sujets sains et 10 sujets hémiplégiques gauches. Ce travail a permis d’identifier la différence entre les sujets hémiplégiques et les sujets sains (ex. les sujets hémiplégiques gauches sont plus asymétriques que les sujets sains) et de comparer les résultats du PAD/PDA avec ancrage mobile à ceux du PAD/PDA avec ancrage fixe (ex. l’asymétrie des sujets hémiplégiques est augmentée pour le PAD/PDA avec ancrage mobile. / Stroke is the first cause of neurological handicap for adults in France. It is the principal cause of hemiplegia and could lead to major consequences as to have difficulties to stand up, to sit down or even to walk/move.Nowadays, there’s no device adapted to assist hemiplegic persons to stand up, to move while standing up and to sit down. The creation of this type of device/vehicle is the aim of VHIPOD project. The absence of studies on the assisted sit-to-stand (STS) for hemiplegic persons invites to investigate two type of assistance : fixed anchor and moving anchor. Two series of experimentation have been conducted. The first experimental device allowed the sit-to-stand/stand-to-sit measurements for 18 healthy subjects and11 right hemiplegic subjects in different conditions : with/without a fixed anchor, with/without an arm sling and for different anchor position. The analysis of the results showed the contribution of a fixed handgrip (ex. reduction of the knee joint moments) and the influence of the handgrip position on the movement (ex. a position on the left/healthy side increases the effort on left lower limb.). The second experimental device allowed the sit-to-stand/stand-to-sit measurements for 7 healthy subjects and 10 left hemiplegic subjects. The analysis of the results allowed us to describe the sit-to-stand/stand-to-sit with moving anchor, to compare the two populations (ex. Left hemiplegic subjects have a more asymmetrical movement then healthy subjects) and to compare the STS with moving anchor to the STS with fixed anchor (ex. The asymmetry of hemiplegic subjects was higher for the STS with a moving anchor).

The objective of dissertation is to find the approaches for processing the data extracted from the reports that document the performing of acceptance tests of ground anchors. The purpose of this activity is to allow further utilization of this data for designing practice. 795 test records were collected. It is essential for the correctness of analysis, that the whole anchor bond must be placed in homogeneous material. The records for anchors that don’t fulfilled this condition were removed. The set of 379 records of anchors installed in six different soil types during construction work in Czech Republic remained. All those anchors were tested according the demands of european standard ČSN EN 1537:2001, valid until 2013. The methodics based on the mathematical statistics, regression analysis and probability methods were compiled during solving the task defined above. The major result of data processing that was performed via methodics based on combination of mathematical statistics and probability simulation methods is the set of bond shear stress parameter values elaborated for variety of soil types. The regression model for determination of the force-displacement curve and the model predicting the creep behavior of loaded ground anchor were constructed, where the creep value is dependent on the tendon bond length, tendon free length and on the level of prestressing force. The description of full-scale experiment, whose results were used for verification of assumptions incorporated in relevant methodics, is included. The example of determining the probability of failure of anchored structure using the stochastic simulation technique is mentioned also, where the previously obtained results are used as input values for this calculation. Moreover, the software application serving for automatization of processes associated to conducting of the tests of ground anchors and to creating the test report is introduced.