Notable publications include:

Thesis: Differential Geometric Methods in the Study of Mappings into Abstract Riemann Surfaces, 1964.

Riesman, Arnold; Silvers, Abraham: On a Non-Linear Differential Equation Common to Several Problems in Hydraulics. Journal of Hydrology 5(2), 1967.

Stern, Michael P.; Farquhar, John W.; Silvers, Abraham; Reaven, Gerald M.: Insulin Delivery Rate into Plasma in Normal and Diabetic Subjects. Journal of Clinical Investigation 47: 1947, 1968.

Silvers, Abraham; Farquhar, John W.: Shen, Shaio-Wei; Stern, Michael P.; Reaven, Gerald M.: Studies of Glucose Uptake in Man, In Vivo. Clinical Research 16:129, 1968.

Shen, Shaio-Wei; Farquhar, John W.; Silvers, Abraham; Reaven, Gerald M.: Demonstration of Impedance to Glucose Transport in Man: Evidence for Its Role in Diabetes. Journal of Clinical Investigation 47:90, 1968.

Silvers, Abraham; Farquhar, John W.; Shen, Shaio-Wei; Reaven, Gerald M.: Delineation of Parameters of Glucose Transport, In Vivo, in Normal and Diabetic Man. Clinical Research 16:352, 1968.

Farquhar, John W.; Silvers, Abraham; Reaven, Gerald W.; Shen, Shaio-Wei: Experimental Evidence for the Inadequacy of Ratios of Insulin/Glucose as a Measure of Diabetes. Diabetes 17:323, 1968.

Silvers, Abraham; Swenson, Robert S.; Farquhar, John W.; Reaven, Gerald M.: Deriviation of a Three-Compartment Model Describing Disappearance of Plasma Insulin. Journal of Clinical Investigation 48:1461, 1969.

Silvers, Abraham; Sanders, William J.: Digital On-Line Display to Investigate the Structure of Metabolic Systems. Computers and Biomedical Research 3:133-145, 1970.

Silvers, Abraham; Farquhar, John W.; Lerner, Robert L.; Reaven, Gerald M.: Evaluation of the Dog as an Experimental Model for Study of Insulin Distribution in Man. Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 75:175-l84, 1970.

Reaven, Gerald M.; Silvers, Abraham; Farquhar, John W.: Study of the Relationship Between Plasma Insulin Concentration and Efficiency of Glucose Uptake in Normal and Mildly Diabetic Subjects. Diabetes 19:571-578, 1970.

Silvers, Abraham; Hess, Rosemarie E.; Sanders, William J.: Automated Digital Graphic Procedures to Study Biological Systems. Mathematical Biosciences 7:421-434, 1970.

Swenson, Robert S.; Silvers, Abraham; Peterson, Dan T.; Kohatsu, S.; Reaven, Gerald M.: The differential Effect of Nephrectomy and Uremia on Plasma Insulin I125 Removal Rate. Clinical Research 18:143, 1970.

Reaven, Gerald M.; Shen, Shaio-Wei; Silvers, Abraham; Farquhar, John W.: Is There a Delay in the Plasma Insulin Response of Patients with Chemical Diabetes Mellitus? Diabetes 20:416-423, 1971.

Swenson, Robert S.; Silvers, Abraham; Peterson, Dan T.; Kohatsu, S.; Reaven, Gerald M.: The Differential Effect of Nephrectomy and Uremia on Plasma Insulin I125 Removal Rate. Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine 77:829, 1971.

Wood, Peter S.; Stern, Michael P.; Silver, Abraham: The Prevalence of Plasma Lipid Abnormalities in Men and Women of the Central Valley of California. Clinical Research 19:169, 1971.

Wood, Peter S.; Stern, Michael P.; Silvers, Abraham; von der Groeben, J.; Reaven, Gerald M.: The Prevalence of Plasma Lipoprotein Abnormalities in a Free-Living Population of the Central Valley of California. Circulation 114, 1972.

Silvers, Abraham: AN Automated Digital Graphic Procedure to Study Kinetics of Metabolic Systems. Proceedings of the Fifth Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Computers in Biomedicine 155, 1972.

Stern, Michael P.; Wood, Peter S.; King, A.; Osmann, K.; Farquhar, John W.; Silvers, Abraham: Morphological and Temporal Characteristics of Obesity as Determinants of Plasma Triglyceride in a Free-Living Population. Experta Medical of Amsterdam: Reprinted from International Congress Series #315, The Reg. of the Adipose Tissue Mass, Proceedings of the Fourth International Meeting of Endocrinology, edited by J. Vague and J. Bower in Marseilles, July 10-13, 1973; pp. 316-319.

Sondik, Edward J.; Brown, Barry W.; Silvers, Abraham: High Risk Subjects and the Cost of Large Field Trails. Journal of Chronic Diseases 177-187, 1974.

Licko, Vojtech; Silvers, Abraham: Open-Loop Glucose Insulin Control with Threshold Secretary Mechanism: Analysis of Intravenous Glucose Tolerance Tests in Man. Mathematical Biosciences 27:319-332, 1975.

Tarter, M.; Silvers, Abraham: Implementation and Application of Nonparametric Gaussian Mixture Decomposition. Journal of the American Statistical Association 70(349):47-56, 1975.

Krauss, R. M.; Silvers, Abraham; Lindgren, F.T.; Jutagir, Rajendra; Bradley, Douglas D.: Changes in Serum High-Density Lipoproteins in Women on Oral Contraceptive Drugs. Clinica Shimica Acta 80:464-470, 1977.

Lindgren, F. T.; Silvers, Abraham; Jutagir, Rajendra; Layshot, L.; Bradley, Douglas D.: A Comparison of Simplified Methods of Lipoprotein Quantification Using the Analystic Ultracentrifuge as a Standard. Lipids 12(3):278-282, 1977.

O’Connell, Michael J.; Wahner, Heinz W.; Ahmann, David L.; Edis, Anthony, J.; Silvers, Abraham: Value of Preoperative Radionuclide Bone Scan in Suspected Primary Breast Carcinoma. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 53(4)221-226, 1978.

Shani, Adi; O’Connell, Michael J.; Moretel, Charles G.; Schutt, Allan J.; Silvers, Abraham; Go, Vay L. W.: Serial Plasma Carcinoembryonic Antigen Measurements in the Management of Metastic Colorectal Carcinoma. Annals of Internal Medicine 88(5):627-630, 1978.

Bill, Joseph; Anderson, R.; O’Fallon, Judith R.; Silvers, Abraham: Development of a Computerized Cancer Data Management System at the Mayo Clinic. International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing 9:477-492, 1978.

Shani, Adi; Ritts, R. E., Jr..; Thynne, Grenville S.; Weiland, Louis H.; Silvers, Abraham; Moertel, Charles G.; Go, Vay L. W.: A Prospective Evaluation of the Leukocyte Adherence Inhibition Test in Colorectal Cancer and its Correlation with Carcinoembryonic Antigen Levels. International Journal of Cancer 22:113-119, 1978.

Moertel, Charles, G.; Ritts, R. E., Jr.; O’Connell, Michael J.; Silvers, Abraham: Non-Specific Immune Determinants in the Patient with Unresectable Gastrointestinal Carcinoma. Cancer 43:1483-1492, 1979.

Thynn, Grenville S.; Moertel, Charles G.; Silvers, Abraham: Preoperative Lymphocyte Counts in Peripheral Blood in Patients with Coloirectal Neoplasms: A Correlation with Tumor Type, Duke’s Classification, Site of Primary, and Five-Year Survival. Diseases of Colon and Rectum 22:221, 1979.

Gotto, Antonio, M., Jr.; Silvers, Abraham: Clinical Studies of the Genetic Hypolipoproteinemias, Workshop on Clinical-Pathological Evidence, Conference on the Health Effects of Blood Lipids: Optimal Distributions for Populations, April 22-12, 1979. Preventive Medicine 8(6)684-687, 1979.

Thynne, Grenville S.; Weiland, Louis H.; Moertel, Charles G.; Silvers, Abraham: Correlation of Histeopathologic Characteristics of Primary Tumor and Uninvolved Regional Lymph Nodes in Duke’s Class C Colonic Carcinoma with Prognosis. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 55:243-245, 1980.

Garber, Alan J.; Schwartz, R. J.; Seidel, C.L.; Silvers, Abraham; Entman, Mark L.: Skeletal Muscle Protein and Amino Acid Metabolism in Hereditary Mouse Muscular Dystrophy: I. Accelerated Protein Turnover and Increased Alanine and Glutamine Formation and Release. Journal of Biological Chemistry 255(17):8315-8324, 1980.

Procianoy, Renato, S.; Garcia-Prats, Joseph A.; Adams, James M.; Silvers, Abraham; Rudolph, Arnold J.: Hyaline Membrane Disease and Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Small for Gestational Age Infants. Archives in Disease of Childhood 55:502-505, 1980.

Lawrie, Gerald M.; Morris, George C., Jr..; Soussou, Issam D.; Starr, David S.; Silvers, Abraham; Glaeser, Donald H.; DeBakey, Michael E.: Late Results of Reconstructive Surgery for Renovascular Disease. Annals of Surgery 191(5):528-533, 1980.

Terman, David S.; Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi; Tillquist, Richard L.; Henry, Joseph F.; Cook, Gary L.; Silvers, Abraham; Sherer, William T.: Tumoricidal Response Induced by Cytosine Arabinoside After Plasma Perfusion Over Protein A. Science 209, 1980.

Lawrie, Gerald M.; Morris, George C., Jr.; Soussou, Issam D.; Starr, David S.; Silvers, Abraham; Glaeser, Donald H.; DeBakey, Michael E.: Late Results of Reconstructive Surgery for Renovascular Disease. Transactions of the Southern Surgical Association from the 91st Annual Meeting, Hot Springs, Virginia, December 3-5, 1979. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1980, pp. 10-15.

Lawrie, G. M.; Morris, G. C., Jr..; Silves, A.; Chapman, D. W.: Results of Coronary Bypass at Least 10 Years After Operation in 250 Patients. American Journal of Cardiology 47:485, 1981.

Lawrie, G. M.; Morris, G. C.; Calhoon, J. H.; Silvers, A.; Beltangady, S. S.; Glaeser, D. H.; Chapman, D. W.: Results of Coronary Bypass at Least Ten Years After Operation in 500 Patients. Circulation 64 (2):91, 1981.

Mather, S. R.; Garber, A. J.; Attar, M.; Silvers, A.; Lawrie, G. M.; Morris, G. C., Jr..: The Diagnosis and Management of Cardiac Disease in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus. Geriatrics 38, 4:81-90, April 1983.

Lawrie, G. M.; Morris, G. C., Jr..; Silvers, A.; Wagner, W.. F.; Baron, A. E.; Beltangady, S. S.; Glaeser, D. H.; Chapman, D. W.: The Influence of Residual Disease After Coronary Bypass on the Five-Year Survival of 1274 Men with Coronary Artery Disease. Circulation 66,4:717-723, 1982.

Lawrie, G. M.; Morris, G. C., Jr.; Calhoon, J. H.; Safi, H.; Samora, J. L.; Beltangady, M.; Baron, A.; Silvers, A.; and Chapman, D. W.: Clinical Results of Coronary Bypass in 500 Patients at Least Ten Years After Operation. Circulation Supplement I: I-1 through I-5, 1982.

Probstfield, J.; Insull, W., Jr.; Silvers, A.; Whitfill, B. J.; Henske, Jr.; Huka, L. and Lin, G.: Reduction of Plasma HDL-cholesterol Concentration by Common Polyunsaturated Oils. Accepted for 6th International Symposium on Atheroclerosis. Berlin, June 1982.

Crawford, E. S.; Saleh, S. A.; Babb, J. W., III; Glaeser, D. H.; Viccaro, P. S.; Silvers, A.: Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: Factors Influencing Survival After Operations Performed Over a 25-Year Period. Annals of Surgery, Volume 193, pgs. 699-709, June 198l.

Probstfield, J. L.; Russell, M. L. ; Silvers, A.; Goodwin, D. L.; Insull, W. J.: Relevance of Applying Clinical Trial Methods to the Practice of Clinical Medicine: Controlled Clinical Trials

Schachtel, Barbara L.; Silvers, Abraham; Herd, Allan J.: Post-Myocardial Infarction and Rehospitalization with Cigarette Smokers, Journal of Cardiac Rehab, 1983 3:290-293.

Russel, M. L.; Silvers, A.; Probstfield, J. L.; Insull, W. Jr..: Self debate: A major factor in trials participants non-adherence to drug regimen: Controlled Clinical Trials 4:150, 1983.

Richards, Edward P.; Silvers, Abraham: Risk Management Theory: Reducing Liability in Corporate and Medical Environments; Houston Law Review, Volume 29, No. 2: 251-173, 1982.

Ricci, P.; Silvers, A.; Wyzga, R.: Role of Risk Analysis in Health Policy: Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineering, Houston, Texas, October 17, 1983.

Silvers, Abraham; Brocksen, R.: Problems of Risk Assessment in Aquatic Ecology: Proceedings of the International Conference on Renewable Resource Inventories. Corvallis, Oregon, August 20, 1983.

Whittemore, A.; Grosser, S.; Silvers, A.: Pharmacokinetics in Low Dose Extrapolation Using Animal Cancer Data: Fundamental and Applied Toxicology 7, 183-190, 1986.

Brown, S. M.; Silvers, A.: Chemical Spill Exposure; Risk Analysis, Vol. 6, No. 3, 291-300, 1986.

Silvers, A.; Thrall, A.; Wyzga, R.: Models of Cancer Causality, Air Pollution Control Association Proceedings, 1988.

Ferson, S.; Ginzburg, L.; Silvers, A.: Extreme Event Risk Analysis for Age-Structured Populations. Ecological Modelling 47:175-187, 1989.

Silvers, A.; Herrmann, N.; Godfrey, K.; Roberts, B.; Cerys, D.: A Statistical Advisory System Using The National Institutes of Health Resource PROPHET. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 18: 341-355 1994

Herrmann, N.; Silvers, A.; Godfrey, K.; Roberts, B.; Cerys, D.: Strategies in Statistical Expert Systems. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 18: 357-369 1994

Silvers, A.; Florence, B.T.; Rourke, D.L.; Lorimor, R.J.; How Children Spend Their Time: A Sample Survey for Use in Exposure and Risk Assessments. Journal of Risk Analysis. Vol 14 No. 6: 931-944 1994

Kampert, J. B.; Silvers, A.: Goodness of Fit in Armitage-Doll Poisson Models. Biometrics 45:1271-1280 1989

McMillan, A; Whitmore, A.S., Silvers, A. and DiCiccio, Jasamen. Biology Markers in Risk Assessment: Evaluation of Markers of Nasal Cancer in a Rodent Formaldehyde Assay. Journal of Risk Analysis 14:807-13 1994

Viren, J.; and Silvers, A.; Updating the Unit Risk for Arsenic Air Exposure Induced Lung Cancer. Regulatory Pharmacology and Toxicology 20:125-138 1994

Insull Jr., W., Silvers, A., Hicks, L., Probstfield, J.F., Plasma Lipid Effects of Three Common Vegetable Oils in Reduced-Fat Diets of Free-Living Adults. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 60:195-202 1994

Crump K.; Viren J.; Silvers A.; Clewell H.; Gearhart J.; Shipp A.; Reanalysis of Dose_Response Data from the Iraqi Methylmercury Poisoning Episode Journal of Risk Analysis 4:523-532 1995

McMillan, A.; and Silvers A.; Extending the Dewanji and Kalbfleisch Model to Incorporate Marker Data. Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics 3: 189-206 1996

Elevitch, F.R; Silvers,A.; Sahl,J.D.; Projecting Corporate Health Plan Utilization and Charges From Annual ICD-9-Cm Diagnostic Rates. Arch Pathol Lab Med 121:1187-1191 1997

Silvers,A; Van Landingham, C; The Use of Multiple Outcomes Analysis in Neurotoxcity. Human and Ecologic Risk Assessment Vol4, No.3; 747-761 1998

Viren,J; Silvers,A; Nonlinearity in the Lung Cancer Dose Response for Airborne Arsenic: Apparent Confounding by Year of Hire. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 36:117-129 1999

Robinson,J.P.; Silvers, A.; Measuring Potential Exposure to Environmental Pollutants: Time Spent with Soil and Time Spent Outdoors. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 10: 341-345 2000

BOOKS:

Crump, K.; Silvers, A.; Ricci, P. F.; Wyzga, R. W.: Interspecies Comparison for Carcinogenic Potency to Humans in Principles of Health Risk Analysis. P. F. Ricci, Editor – Prentice Hall, 1984.

Silvers, A.; Crump, K.: Examination of Risk Estimation Models in Handbook of Carcinogen Testing, Editors: H. A. Millman, E. K. Weisburger, Noyes, 1985.

Silvers, A.; Newell, W. G.: Editors, Proceedings: New Directions on the Extrapolation of Health Risks from Animals to Man: Volume 1: Extrapolation from Animals to Man. EPRI EA-4447, 1986.

Silvers, A.; Newell, W. G.: Editors, Proceedings: New Directions on the Extrapolation of Health Risks from Animals to Man: Volume 2: Toxicokinetics. EPRI EA-4447, 1986.

Layard, M.; Silvers, A.: Epidemiology in Environmental Risk Assessment: Chapter in The Risk Assessment of Environmental and Human Health Hazards. D. J. Paustenbach, editor. Wiley, 1989.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

Golenzer, H. J.; Taylor, W. F.; O’Fallon, Judith R.; Silvers, Abraham: A System for Assuring Protocol Adherence in Clinical Trials. Technical Report Series, Section of Medical Research Statistics, Mayo Clinic, 2, 1978.

Silvers, Abraham: Monitoring Internal Quality Assurance of Clinical Trials. Proceedings of the National Conference on Clinical Trials and Methodology, October 4, 1977, Bethesda, Maryland, p. 725.

Silvers, Abraham; O’Fallon, Judith, R.; Bill, Joseph: Data Base Management Structure in Cancer Clinical Trials. Proceedings of the Third United States-Japan Conference, October 29, 1978, San Francisco, California.

Herrmann, N.; Silvers, A.; Godfrey, K.; Roberts, B.: Preliminary Report on a Statistical Advisory System for a National Institutes of Health Computer Research Resource (PROPHET). Proceedings of the 21st Symposium of the Interface of Computer Science and Statistics, 1989.

Silvers, A.; Russell, M.; Insull, W.: The Statistical Analysis of Adherence Data Obtained from Markers. Proceedings of Workshop on the Development of Markers to be Used as Adherence Measures, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, AHA, February 22-25, 1982, Silver Springs, Maryland.

Weinberg, A.; Silvers, A.: Overview Evaluation of Programs Presented on Self-Management for Children with Asthma. Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Immunologic Diseases at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 1981.

Silvers, A.; Ricci, P.; Wyzga, R.: Health Risk Models and Comparmental Models: Proceedings of the Statistical Symposium on National Energy Issues, Rockville, Maryland. October 29-21, 1983.

Silvers, A.: A Comparison of Health Risk Assessment Models and Ecological Risk Assessment Models, Proceedings of the International Conference of Risk Assessment in Agricultural Biotechnology, July 31 – August 4, 1988.